During its 61st approach to Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft took many amazing photos of the gas giant. Recently, citizen scientist Gary Eason processed them and created an amazing image showing the swirls in the planet’s atmosphere in great detail.
Amazing photo of Jupiter
Gary Eason is a public scientist who helps experts process the data that the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter receives. Recently, he was able to get an amazing photo of this gas giant, which he shared with people.
The raw data set that Eason was working with was obtained back on May 12, 2024, using the JunoCam survey tool. At that moment the spacecraft was making 61 approaches to the giant planet and was at an altitude of 29 thousand kilometers from it above 68 degrees north latitude.
The researcher processed the raw photos, adding color and clarity to them. This made it possible to see many small details. The Juno spacecraft gets such interesting photos almost every time it gets close to the giant planet or one of its moons. However, they still amaze people who look at them.
What’s in the picture
A new photo of Jupiter gives us a panorama of its turbulent atmosphere. It shows the Northern Hemisphere of the giant planet. The thin, thread-like swirls actually extend for hundreds and thousands of kilometers.
A photo of Jupiter gives a detailed view of the chaotic cloud movement and cyclones in the region known to scientists as the folded filamentous region. The gas jets in it are constantly creating and destroying amazing structures.
Jupiter’s atmosphere in general is much more complex than Earth’s because of its thickness and overall volume. From inside the planet, heated material is constantly flowing into it. In order to study how this huge machine works, the Juno spacecraft was launched.
According to www.nasa.gov
