Posted on 06/08/2021 4:49:27 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What do you see in the clouds of Jupiter? On the largest scale, circling the planet, Jupiter has alternating light zones and reddish-brown belts. Rising zone gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, usually swirls around regions of high pressure. Conversely, falling belt gas usually whirls around regions of low pressure, like cyclones and hurricanes on Earth. Belt storms can form into large and long-lasting white ovals and elongated red spots. NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft captured most of these cloud features in 2017 during perijove 6, its sixth pass over the giant planet in its looping 2-month orbit. But it is surely not these clouds themselves that draws your attention to the displayed image, but rather their arrangement. The face that stands out, nicknamed Jovey McJupiterFace, lasted perhaps a few weeks before the neighboring storm clouds rotated away. Juno has now completed 33 orbits around Jupiter and just yesterday made a close pass near Ganymede, our Solar System's largest moon.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
GOD IS GOOD!!! BEUATIFUL!
That would be a cool image to make a poster. I miss posters.
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Joy Behar
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Amen!
My mailing address is Jupiter, but I live 50 yards from Juno Beach. Yet I can’t see this!
JK - love the astronomy threads. Always fascinating.
Hard to compete with an orbiting spacecraft, but here's my Jupiter. This was a bit of an experiment. Next time I image this planet I expect to increase the resolution and surface detail significantly using different techniques.
nice!!
Put a hotel space station there. You would have a great view. As long as the shields work, if they fail you will be fried by the radiation.
Thanks. That was from video, taking the best 600 out 1500 frames, stacking, calibrating and aligning the frames into one image. Unfortunately I forgot to remove a 6.3 focal reducer from the optical train, which gave me an unwanted wider field of view while making the planet appear more distant.
Not a bad image. Better than my cell phone and a magnifying glass!
Thanks. Btw, that’s Ganymede next to Jupiter. It’s about half the size of earth.☺
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