Posted on 09/02/2022 1:09:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A new image captured by NASA's Juno Jupiter explorer reveals features in the turbulent atmosphere of the solar system's largest planet in the same colors a human observer would see them.
Juno took the image on July 5, 2022, during its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter using its JunoCam instrument. The spacecraft was at a distance of 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) from the tops of the gas giant's clouds when the image was taken, zipping by at 130,000 mph (209,000 kph).
Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson processed the raw data from Juno to create two images. The image on the left hand side shows the view as it would appear to a human observer in Juno's position. In the image on the right, Jónsson digitally enhanced color saturation and contrast, allowing the intricate structure of the planet's atmosphere to come to the fore.
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Jupiter is beautiful but it would suck you down and burn you to a crisp. Just saying it’s a nice place to visit but not to live.
The Dwellers will not be happy if NASA keeps messing round, and everybody know what happens when they get ticked off.
Well, as long as we stay away from Europa, we should be fine.
Even if you avoid getting squashed by the planet, the radiation environment around gas giants is terrible. “Space grade” electronics for use in Earth orbit won’t make it there, they need to be housed in a shielded “vault” to avoid being fried.
Having looked at Jupiter many times through my own telescopes, it is far more vibrant than the pic on the left. Not quite the wide color pallete of the pic on the right, but oranges, yellows, browns and creamy whites with vivid contrast between them. Of course I'm looking at the entire planet. This seems to be a small region away from the equatorial bands that lacks much high contrast detail. Thus it benefits from false color enhancement.
They can use Trump’s “shielded vault”!! It’s empty thanks to the FBI.
Everyone sees the face, correct?
;-)
Ping!
(in case you want to see where Ellen visited the Jupiterians..)
I don’t think that “true colors” is the right description. Quite the opposite.
Stay away from Io.
Attempt no landing there.
Was it Europa? Been too long
I prefer Gina LolaJupiter
You've dated Brasilians before. I can tell. :D
Take the photo of Jupiter’s surface and blow it up for an interesting view, showing mountains, plateaus and big holes I suspect of having been volcanoes long ago and such.
Just stay away form all the gas giants - including their moons unless you have permission, which is seldom granted.
Better Jupiter than Obamacare.
Maybe the creamy whites are a mixture of blue and white, but you can’t see that detail from an amateur telescope?
Don’t think the gas giants like Jupiter actually have a surface in the standard sense.
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