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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Jupiter's Swirls from Juno
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod ^ | 23 May, 2023 | Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Processing & License: Kevin M. Gill

Posted on 05/23/2023 2:02:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Big storms are different on Jupiter. On Earth, huge hurricanes and colossal cyclones are centered on regions of low pressure, but on Jupiter, it is the high-pressure, anti-cyclone storms that are the largest. On Earth, large storms can last weeks, but on Jupiter they can last years. On Earth, large storms can be as large as a country, but on Jupiter, large storms can be as large as planet Earth. Both types of storms are known to exhibit lightning. The featured image of Jupiter's clouds was composed from images and data captured by the robotic Juno spacecraft as it swooped close to the massive planet in August 2020. A swirling white oval is visible nearby, while numerous smaller cloud swirls extend into the distance. On Jupiter, light-colored clouds are usually higher up than dark clouds. Despite their differences, studying storm clouds on distant Jupiter provides insights into storms and other weather patterns on familiar Earth.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: nasa
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1 posted on 05/23/2023 2:02:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 05/23/2023 2:02:15 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; America_Right; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔


3 posted on 05/23/2023 2:02:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Wow 🤩.


4 posted on 05/23/2023 2:06:05 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

I say, “let’s take it around and land somewhere else!”


5 posted on 05/23/2023 2:06:31 PM PDT by BatGuano (2020 = Stolen Election. Believe it! Molon Labe.)
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To: MtnClimber

She acts like summer and walks like rain


6 posted on 05/23/2023 2:06:36 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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Beautiful and amazing.


7 posted on 05/23/2023 2:07:55 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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“’Scuze me while I kiss the Sky.”


8 posted on 05/23/2023 2:37:47 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

She acts like summer and walks like rain


9 posted on 05/23/2023 2:42:30 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

She listens like spring and she talks like June


10 posted on 05/23/2023 2:43:50 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Train - Drops of Jupiter (08/06/2022) at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Denver, CO
11 posted on 05/23/2023 2:47:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The swirls remind me of a marble cake.


12 posted on 05/23/2023 2:48:36 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Stand up, or bend over)
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To: left that other site

Geeze...you’ve got it wrong too! It’s “excuse me while I kiss this guy”. Hopefully you also understand that it’s “there’s the bathroom on the right”.


13 posted on 05/23/2023 2:59:16 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Two Words: BANANA REPUBLIC!)
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LOL!


14 posted on 05/23/2023 3:28:16 PM PDT by left that other site (Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.)
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To: MtnClimber

Looks like modern art - but better than most of it.


15 posted on 05/23/2023 7:50:53 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Amazing photo. Spacecraft is launched to Jupiter and arrives exactly and a small camera takes photos with the right exposure and tracks the rotation of the planet and then they are transmitted back at slow speed and we see the great photos.

Meanwhile I have a fancy Canon EOS R6 and I am lucky to get a correctly exposed photo let alone a sharp one during daylight hours of a still object or a photo of the moon that is sharp.
Maybe I outta read the manual and practice and practice.
Find a exposure guide for different subjects.
Print out and also add to custom settings.

I am guessing the people that made the camera practice before launch.


16 posted on 05/23/2023 11:50:33 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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