Posted on 08/30/2022 1:19:06 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: This new view of Jupiter is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the new James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) reveal, for example, previously unknown differences between high-floating bright clouds -- including the Great Red Spot -- and low-lying dark clouds. Also clearly visible in the featured Webb image are Jupiter's dust ring, bright auroras at the poles, and Jupiter's moons Amalthea and Adrastea. Large volcanic moon Io's magnetic funneling of charged particles onto Jupiter is also visible in the southern aurora. Some objects are so bright that light noticeably diffracts around Webb's optics creating streaks. Webb, which orbits the Sun near the Earth, has a mirror over six meters across making it the largest astronomical telescope ever launched -- with over six times more light-collecting area than Hubble.
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. Red Badger posted the photo several days ago. It was not posted yet to the NASA APOD site so many may not have seen it yet.
When will we get to see Uranus?
Well, NASA probably swings that way these days, when they aren’t doing muslim outreach. They are probably avoiding things that could get them beheaded although the gay thing was an 0bama priority.
Did the great red spot turn white?
The planet is browner than I expected.
And who named those moons. I’ll never remember those, even if I live there some day.
Remember Webb takes images in infra-red so to make the images visible to us the colors have to be artificially assigned.
Webb was using infrared. Not even visible to mere humans. So they assign a spectrum translation so we can see what we paid for.
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