Posted on 08/28/2022 1:54:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Here comes Jupiter! NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 11 in early 2018, the eleventh time Juno has passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. This time-lapse, color-enhanced movie covers about four hours and morphs between 36 JunoCam images. The video begins with Jupiter rising as Juno approaches from the north. As Juno reaches its closest view -- from about 3,500 kilometers over Jupiter's cloud tops -- the spacecraft captures the great planet in tremendous detail. Juno passes light zones and dark belt of clouds that circle the planet, as well as numerous swirling circular storms, many of which are larger than hurricanes on Earth. After the perijove, Jupiter recedes into the distance, then displaying the unusual clouds that appear over Jupiter's south. To get desired science data, Juno swoops so close to Jupiter that its instruments are exposed to very high levels of radiation.
Today's image is a video.
That’s lovely! “3500” makes you wonder about the cross section of Jupiter’s atmosphere. How far down (and high up) does it go? Does it retain helium?
Thanks Mtn Climber! Much better than that disturbing video at the Jovian pole where there are all these vortices that look like eyes!
At 30 second mark it feels like about 7 or 8 Gs.
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