2023-07-08 04:03:56
NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently released a series of interesting close-ups of Jupiter’s cloud tops. The images were created from raw data captured by the onboard 2-megapixel camera during Juno’s 52nd flyby on June 23, 2023. Juno orbits Jupiter, 628 million kilometers from Earth, making it the furthest solar-powered rover from Earth. False-color images of three Arctic circumpolar cyclones (NASA/SWRI/MSSS/NAVANEETH KRISHNAN S © CC BY) data cover a distance of regarding 34 light-minutes (1 light-minute = regarding 18 million km) from the NASA deep It is sent using the space network (DSN). DSN is an array of three large radio telescopes located in Goldstone, California; Madrid, Spain; and Campbell, Australia. The raw data was downloaded, assembled, and colorized and otherwise processed by citizen scientists into the final images presented in this article. Jupiter photographed by Juno during its 52nd flyby (NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/KEVIN M. GILL © CC BY). Built by Martin, Juno is operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. On July 4, 2016, it successfully entered the orbit of Jupiter. Since then, it has been moving near Jupiter’s cloud tops in an elliptical orbit. The main goal of the current extended mission is to observe Jupiter’s four large moons: Ganymede, Europa, Callisto and Io. Juno is currently orbiting Jupiter every 32 days. False color image of the Arctic circumpolar cyclone (NASA/SWRI/MSSS/NAVANEETH KRISHNAN S © CC BY) So far, it has flybyed to Ganymede in 2021 and to Europa in 2022. Europa is of interest to astrobiologists looking for extraterrestrial life in our solar system. Juno photographed Io from a distance of just 22,060km during its May 17, 2023 flyby. Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, erupts lava from the volcanoes that cover its surface. Jupiter (NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/KEVIN M. GILL © CC BY) photographed by Juno in its 52nd flyby. It is the gravitational force that the satellite constantly receives. Juno will flyby Io twice in a new expansion mission. It will approach within 1500 km on December 30, 2023 and February 3, 2024. However, the next Jupiter flyby, which takes place this month, will also take distant images of Io. Jupiter imaged by Juno during its 52nd flyby (NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SWRI/MSSS/KEVIN M. GILL © CC BY). launched the probe. The spacecraft will orbit Ganymede for nine months starting in 2034. By then, Juno will have been damaged by Jupiter’s harsh radiation environment and will be making a “death dive” to Jupiter. (original forbes.com)
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