Posted on 06/26/2018 12:49:24 PM PDT by Simon Green
Nasa has released stunning images of Jupiter taken from the Juno spacecraft.
The breathtaking images show swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter’s northern hemisphere.
Scientists said the photos allowed them to see the planet’s weather system in greater detail.
According to the space station, the brighter colours in the images represent clouds made up of ammonia and water, while the darker blue-green spirals represent cloud material "deeper in Jupiter's atmosphere."
At the time Juno was about 9,600 miles from the planet's cloud tops.
The Juno satellite was launched in order to improve Nasa’s understanding of the solar system's beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.
It was launched on August 5 2011 and its mission will end in July 2021
Someone ping me when they find that black thingee.
Look at all of those unnamed “monster” storms. Now that’s what I call some serious “global warming”.
Maybe not worth the billion dollars spent on this mission, but these are still awesome photos.
I have to say, I feel like we’re gotten some serious bang for the buck on NASA rovers, probes, satellites in the last couple decades.
Then again, that is less than two thousandths of the amount we spend on Medicaid every year, so what’s another billion?
Well worth it, I say.
Can we Teraform it yet?
Can we Teraform it yet?
Wow.
In a word....no.
:-)
I think it is nifty that it is solar powered though the sun light is about 4 percent as strong out there as it is here.
Only the latest generation of solar power cells are efficient enough, previous probes needed nuclear power. Still do, for anything beyond Jupiter.
Here, here. The Mars Rovers have far exceeded their expected service life (at least one of them did).
Amazing.
It’s beautiful stuff. Some of the pics would make nifty Van Gogh-like wall art.
Sheila Jackson Lee wants to know if we can see the flag planted by the astronauts.
They both did - they were only supposed to last for months, and ended up going on for years. I think the one just got shut down a couple of years ago - although I think they booted it up recently to get some basic data from it. Or perhaps I’m thinking of one of the Voyagers (past our solar system now) that they did that with.
And...
“Looks like that Red thingy is tipping over!”, Hank Johnson.
Maybe not worth the billion dollars spent on this mission, but these are still awesome photos.
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Actually, the mission is collecting non-visual data. The visible images are for PR.
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