Posted on 04/21/2024 1:13:00 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter. NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its now month-long, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 16, the sixteenth time that Juno passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. Each perijove passes near a slightly different part of Jupiter's cloud tops. This color-enhanced video has been digitally composed from 21 JunoCam still images, resulting in a 125-fold time-lapse. 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 belts of clouds that circle the planet, as well as numerous swirling circular storms, many of which are larger than hurricanes on Earth. As Juno moves away, the remarkable dolphin-shaped cloud is visible. After the perijove, Jupiter recedes into the distance, now 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 an amazing video at the source link.
Some of ‘our’ planets are so uniquely beautiful...
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Today’s image is an amazing video at the source link.
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Amazing is the right descriptor. Thanks for posting.
Never saw the word “perijove” before. It’s a bastardized neologism—”peri” is Greek and “Jove” is from the Latin name for the planet (known to the Greeks as Zeus). Cf “perigee” using the Greek name for the planet earth. The accusative of Zeus would be either Zena or Dia, so maybe “perizene” (but no one would have any idea what that means).
The video has a three dimensional feel to it due to the spacecraft movement.
We also don’t say Venus has a Venereal atmosphere...
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That is AWESOME!
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That is spectacular. Reminds me of artwork by the late Frank P. Stimson:
His work is mighty, we’re so blessed to be witness to His creations.
WOW!! Very nice!! 😃😍
The video has a three dimensional feel to it due to the spacecraft movement.
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Yes it does! A remarkable video. The detail is incredible. My only beef is that the video is so fast it’s hard to really study the cloud formations. But pausing it allowed me to see the structure in the atmosphere at different points. I was expecting the paused views to be blurry, but they weren’t. Amazing.
Its beautiful in a colorful twisty sort of way. Its a bit disturbing when you look at it and see what look like eyes looking back.
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