Juno spacecraft flied over Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the Jupiter's Great Red Spot during its July 10 flyby.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt - The image was taken on July 10, 2017 at 07:07 p.m. PDT (10:07 p.m. EDT). At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was flying 9,866 kilometers over the tops of the clouds.
The image is approximately illumination adjusted and strongly enhanced to draw viewers' eyes to the iconic storm and the turbulence around it.
The central area of the previous image:
Another enhanced colors image with surrounding area:
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major - The image was taken on July 10, 2017 at 07:10 p.m. PDT (10:10 p.m. EDT). At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 13,917 kilometers from the tops of the clouds.
Image: NASA
Juno camera has raw resolution for each of its color filters 1648 pixels wide and 9840 pixels high, but resulting images are 1600 x 1200 pixels.
Junocam sees only upper layer of Jupiter's clouds. Says Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio:
Now we have the best pictures ever of this iconic storm. It will take us some time to analyze all the data from not only JunoCam, but Juno's eight science instruments, to shed some new light on the past, present and future of the Great Red Spot.
Source:
[1] https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing
[2] https://phys.org/news/2017-07-juno-spacecraft-jupiter-great-red_1.html
An amazing photo! Jupiter like an orange God Thorne, which prepares for us the storms and typhoons=))
Do you mean Thor? Then rather Odin, or Mr Wednesday from American Gods series. He would like this storm ^^
Exactly, Thor! =)))
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