Traveling above Jupiter at more than 130,000 miles per hour, NASA's $1 billion Juno probe took its ninth set of stunning flyby images on October 24. But the sun slipped between the giant planet and Earth for more than a week, blocking the spacecraft from beaming home its precious bounty of data.
Now that the conjunction is over, however, new raw image data from Juno's ninth perijove — as the spacecraft's high-speed flybys are called — has poured in. Researchers posted it all online on Tuesday, and a community of amateurs and professionals has been busily processing the data to yield colorful and stunning new pictures of Jupiter.
“Brand new Jupiter pics from @NASAJuno Perijove 09! What a blimmin' gorgeous/diabolical planet,” Seán Doran, a UK-based graphic artist who regularly processes NASA images, tweeted on Tuesday.
Below are some fresh, close-up images of Jupiter, along with other unbelievable views captured from earlier perijoves.
In the most recent flyby, as with the previous eight, Juno's flyby started over Jupiter's north pole.
At its closest approach to Jupiter during each flyby, the robot briefly becomes the fastest human-made object in the solar system, reaching speeds of around 130,000 miles per hour.
Then Juno flew back out into deep space, passing over Jupiter's South Pole on its exit. Churning storms at the poles constantly change their appearance.
Others dazzle with their detail of the planet's thick cloud bands and powerful storms. Jupiter is made up predominantly of hydrogen. The simple, basic gas, a prime ingredient on the sun, accounts for 90 percent of the atmosphere. Nearly 10 percent is composed of helium.
The planet's atmosphere is a turbulent mess of hydrogen and helium gases. The atmosphere of Jupiter is the largest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System. It is mostly made of molecular hydrogen and helium in roughly solar proportions; other chemical compounds are present only in small amounts and include methane, ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and water.
Other times, shining-white clouds fill up most of a band. With an average temperature of minus 234 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 145 degrees Celsius), Jupiter is frigid even in its warmest weather. Unlike Earth, whose temperature varies as one moves closer to or farther from the equator, Jupiter's temperature depends more on height above the surface.
Many cloud bands have features called chevrons. These atmospheric disturbances blow at several hundreds of miles per hour and sometimes zig-zag through a band, or punch through into others.
In this older view of Jupiter, from Juno's eighth perijove, two cloud bands battle for dominance — one of which contains a swirling storm many times larger than a hurricane on Earth.
It is good to see that Nasa Jupiter program sent new photos of Jupiter as this program cost is around 1 billion. The Nasa program will really help the discovery of new facts and figures about nature and geographic structure of these planets and they also do research to find out the possibility of life on other planets.
These are all computer generated images (CGI) and not photos. NASA is one of the largest tax scams in the world and they have to release these made up images to continue the fraud.
Can anyone tell me how this "probe" got past the Van Allen belt without being fried or how it got through the meteorite belt which exists past Mars?
These are all computer generated images (CGI) and not photos. NASA is one of the largest tax scams in the world and they have to release these made up images to continue the fraud.
Can anyone tell me how this "probe" got past the Van Allen belt without being fried or how it got through the meteorite belt which exists past Mars?
The same liars who try to pass off these computer generated cartoons as photos told us about the Van Allen and meteorite belts. The bigger the lie, the more they have to lie in order to cover it up.
So are you going to explain how this probe got past both of those belts or are you going to clinch at straw man arguments like a typical confused neo-liberal?
At least you admit that these images are cartoons and not photos so there is that. I would like an honest answer to my question but I don't think I will be getting one from you.
Fact: these are not photos and just cartoons. In fact the most expensive cartoons to ever be created costing billions of dollars.
