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Judi Lynn

(160,525 posts)
Mon Aug 22, 2022, 06:41 AM Aug 2022

In Photos: See The Spectacular New Images Of Jupiter And Its Swirling Storms Taken Last Week By NASA

In Photos: See The Spectacular New Images Of Jupiter And Its Swirling Storms Taken Last Week By NASA’s Juno Spacecraft

Jamie CarterSenior Contributor
Aug 20, 2022,05:05am EDT

On Wednesday last week NASA’s Juno spacecraft looped around Jupiter for the 44th time. As it did it took another set of jaw-dropping images of the giant planet.

They were transmitted to Earth late last week and since then a team of citizen scientists have processed the data—and data showing Jupiter itself—into this stunning collection of images of its swirling storms and cyclones.



Jupiter as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on its 44th perijove on August 17, 2022 and ... [+] NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/KEVIN M. GILL © CC BY

In a long elliptical orbit of Jupiter since 2016, NASA’s $1.1 billion Juno spacecraft’s latest flyby (called a perijove) of Jupiter saw it dip close to the giant planet’s northern polar regions.

Juno has done some incredible work at Jupiter that’s allowed scientists to learn a lot more about its complex interior whose origin is difficult to understand.



Jupiter as captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on its 44th perijove on August 17, 2022 and ... [+] NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/KEVIN M. GILL © CC BY

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/08/20/in-photos-see-the-spectacular-new-images-of-jupiter-and-its-swirling-storms-taken-last-week-by-nasas-juno-spacecraft/

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In Photos: See The Spectacular New Images Of Jupiter And Its Swirling Storms Taken Last Week By NASA (Original Post) Judi Lynn Aug 2022 OP
Wonders like this help Easterncedar Aug 2022 #1
Extraordinary!! niyad Aug 2022 #2
Van Goph would be impressed. aeromanKC Aug 2022 #3
The close-up is inspiration for gargoyles! flor-de-jasmim Aug 2022 #4
Link to BBC nitpicker Aug 2022 #5
Ah, "perijove." Igel Aug 2022 #6

Easterncedar

(2,296 posts)
1. Wonders like this help
Mon Aug 22, 2022, 08:03 AM
Aug 2022

When existential despair threatens, it’s good to be reminded of the vast and amazing things beyond. Thanks!

Igel

(35,300 posts)
6. Ah, "perijove."
Tue Aug 23, 2022, 09:54 PM
Aug 2022

Like "perikrone," insufficiently used.

Sadly, pareidolia wins. First thing I want to do is find the faces. Sad.

Interesting art, though, the choice of false colors. They could have picked chartreuse and hot pink, but they picked the palette they did. Makes it look like a wallpaper pattern for a fairly conservative couple (with a bit of an avant-garde flair--but not *too* avant-garde, lest their peers notice).

I still prefer the JWST Jupiter image with the rings showing. A rarity, that one.

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