#juno

#juno

Jupiter, Io, and Europa in One Photo Taken by NASA's Juno SpacecraftIt looks like Juno has caught her husband cheating again. This time with two women at once!All mythological jokes aside (let’s get real this amazing yet lowkey funny instance was just the opening for a cheesy joke), there is no cheating involved. This is merely a great feat of technological advancement and scientific prowess.NASA’s Juno is a spacecraft dedicated to orbiting Jupiter and observing the happenings within the planet and its nearby celestial neighbors. The orbiter was able to capture an image of the planet and its two moons nearby in just one photo! The two moons seem to be very far from Jupiter, as the spacecraft was flying closer to the planet at 8,000 miles (61,000 kilometers). Regardless, this rare photo is still amazing! The image was processed by scientist Andrea Luck using the data from the JunoCam instrument, which captured the photograph.Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS#space #Jupiter #Juno #Io #Europa #moons #photography #NASA

The Blue Eye of Jupiter(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill/Navaneeth Krishnan CC BY 3.0)While we've all become familiar with the Great Red Spot on the side of the Jupiter, the planet's North Pole is stormy, blue, and utterly fascinating, although we never got to see it until the Juno mission flew over it and began to sent back images in 2016. The picture above is titled Jupiter North Highly Enhanced. It took an entire team of engineers, photographers, and artists to render this new artwork of one of Jupiter's gigantic atmospheric storms from data sent back by the Juno mission. This is an example of collaborative work found at Junocam, where the missions's images are uploaded, processed, discussed, promoted, and displayed by volunteer amateur astronomers. Check out another picture of Jupiter's blue northern hemisphere processed from images at Junocam.

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Surprisingly Deep: It Extends At Least 150 Miles Below the Cloud TopsNASA’s Juno spacecraft looked deep beneath Jupiter’s Great Red Spot to study the structure of the great storm and its significance in the origin and evolution of the gas giant, with the hopes of increasing our understanding of other gas planets.Juno’s latest measurements of the depths of the planet’s violent storms were published in Science on October 28, 2021, and its main subject is the Great Red Spot, a vortex wider than Earth. Such measurements were gathered with the use of microwave observations and gravity measurements to help scientists in characterizing the weather dynamics of Jupiter.“Jupiter’s beauty is not just skin deep, and we are seeing, for the first time, the atmosphere in three dimensions,” says Scott Bolton, an astrophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute and principal investigator of the Juno mission.Microwave observations revealed that the roots of the Great Red Spot extend to at least 240 kilometers below the cloud tops. Moreover, gravity measurements showed that the Great Red Spot has atmospheric roots extending no more than 500 kilometers below the cloud tops. Bolton said that its vortex probably fades gradually rather than having a sharp cut off.Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS, Gerald Eichstadt and Justin Cowart#Jupiter #GreatRedSpot #deep #Juno #vortex