The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and swirling patterns of the planet’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5. The raw images taken by the JunoCam instrument became available to the public, and then software engineer Björn Jónsson stepped in to process them. Mr Jónsson edited an image to depict the approximate colors the human eye would be able to see from Juno’s vantage point. He then created another, using the same data, with increased saturation and contrast that gave a cleaner and more colorful view of Jupiter. The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and swirling patterns of Jupiter’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5, 2022 An approximately true color and contrast image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from raw image frames PJ44_46 produced by NASA’s JunoCam instrument. North is up An enhanced image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from the raw image frames PJ43_41 produced by NASA’s JunoCam. Contrast and color saturation have been increased and small-scale features have been sharpened. Special processing was also used to reduce compression artifacts and noise in the image. North is up
Jupiter: The basics
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in our solar system.
It is a huge ball of gas composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with some heavy elements.
“Jupiter’s familiar streaks and swirls are actually cold, stormy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium,” NASA said.
“Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm larger than Earth that has been raging for hundreds of years.”
The planet is twice the size of all the other planets combined, and the Great Red Spot alone is big enough to fit the entire Earth inside.
NASA’s Juno orbiter is currently exploring the planet.
Distance from the Sun: 750 million km
Orbit period: 12 years
Area: 61.42 billion km²
Radius: 69,911 km
Mass: 1.898 × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕)
Day duration: 0d 9h 56m
Moons: 53 with official designations. countless extra moons
At the time the instrument passed, it was about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 50 degrees.
The spacecraft was traveling at about 130,000 mph (209,000 kilometers per hour) relative to the planet.
Mr. Jónsson, a citizen scientist and self-proclaimed advanced amateur processor of planetary images, managed to visualize the structure of Jupiter’s clouds.
When it increased color saturation and contrast, small-scale features were sharpened while reducing any compression artifacts and noise.
The variety of colors results from the different chemical composition in the planet’s atmosphere.
His processed images also show the three-dimensional nature of Jupiter’s large swirling eddies and the smaller, bright “pop-up” clouds that form in the highest parts of the atmosphere.
The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year journey of 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion km) from Earth.
After a successful braking maneuver, it entered a long polar orbit flying within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet’s swirling cloud tops.
The probe came within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet’s clouds once a fortnight – too close to provide global coverage in a single image.
No previous spacecraft has orbited this close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent to plunge to their doom through its atmosphere.
The new images were released by NASA just days after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the stunning auroras shining around Jupiter’s north and south poles.
As Jupiter rotates, it drags along its magnetic field which is bombarded by solar wind particles, resulting in fluctuations that create auroras.
This is a similar process to how the solar winds create the wonderful auroras on Earth.
When Mr. Jónsson increased the color saturation and contrast, small-scale features were sharpened while reducing any compression artifacts and noise
Along with the glowing poles, the images show incredible detail of the turbulent atmosphere, rings around the planet and some of Jupiter’s 79 moons can be seen glowing around the giant planet.
Astronomers working with JWST are equally amazed to see the amazing detail in the images, with astronomer Imke de Pater saying he and the team didn’t expect the results to be this good.
“It’s really remarkable that we can see details of Jupiter along with its rings, tiny moons and even its galaxies in one image,” said de Pater, who is also a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
The images were taken with the telescope’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which is capable of detecting infrared light from the earliest stars and galaxies.
The new images were released by NASA just days after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the stunning auroras shining around Jupiter’s north and south poles. One image (pictured), which shows just Jupiter, is a composite of several images and shows the auroras blowing in bright orange, yellow and green over Jupiter’s north and south poles
How NASA’s Juno probe to Jupiter will reveal the secrets of the solar system’s largest planet
The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter in 2016 after a five-year, 1.8-billion-mile journey from Earth The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year journey of 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion km) from Earth. After a successful braking maneuver, it entered a long polar orbit flying within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet’s swirling cloud tops. The probe came within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet’s clouds once a fortnight – too close to provide global coverage in a single image. No previous spacecraft has orbited this close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent to plunge to their doom through its atmosphere. To complete its perilous mission, Juno survived a circuit-frying radiation storm created by Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field. The vortex of high-energy particles traveling at nearly the speed of light is the harshest radiation environment in the Solar System. To cope with the conditions, the spacecraft was protected with special radiation-hardened wiring and sensor shielding. Its all-important “brain”—the spacecraft’s flight computer—was housed in an armored titanium vault and weighed nearly 400 pounds (172 kg). The craft is expected to study the composition of the planet’s atmosphere until 2025.
title: “Nasa S Juno Probe Takes A Stunning Photo Of Jupiter That Reveals The Planet S True Colors Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-17” author: “Melvin Emerson”
The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and swirling patterns of the planet’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5. The raw images taken by the JunoCam instrument became available to the public, and then software engineer Björn Jónsson stepped in to process them. Mr Jónsson edited an image to depict the approximate colors the human eye would be able to see from Juno’s vantage point. He then created another, using the same data, with increased saturation and contrast that gave a cleaner and more colorful view of Jupiter. The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and swirling patterns of Jupiter’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5, 2022 An approximately true color and contrast image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from raw image frames PJ44_46 produced by NASA’s JunoCam instrument. North is up An enhanced image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from the raw image frames PJ43_41 produced by NASA’s JunoCam. Contrast and color saturation have been increased and small-scale features have been sharpened. Special processing was also used to reduce compression artifacts and noise in the image. North is up
Jupiter: The basics
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in our solar system.
It is a huge ball of gas composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with some heavy elements.
“Jupiter’s familiar streaks and swirls are actually cold, stormy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium,” NASA said.
“Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm larger than Earth that has been raging for hundreds of years.”
The planet is twice the size of all the other planets combined, and the Great Red Spot alone is big enough to fit the entire Earth inside.
NASA’s Juno orbiter is currently exploring the planet.
Distance from the Sun: 750 million km
Orbit period: 12 years
Area: 61.42 billion km²
Radius: 69,911 km
Mass: 1.898 × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕)
Day duration: 0d 9h 56m
Moons: 53 with official designations. countless extra moons
At the time the instrument passed, it was about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 50 degrees.
The spacecraft was traveling at about 130,000 mph (209,000 kilometers per hour) relative to the planet.
Mr. Jónsson, a citizen scientist and self-proclaimed advanced amateur processor of planetary images, managed to visualize the structure of Jupiter’s clouds.
When it increased color saturation and contrast, small-scale features were sharpened while reducing any compression artifacts and noise.
The variety of colors results from the different chemical composition in the planet’s atmosphere.
His processed images also show the three-dimensional nature of Jupiter’s large swirling eddies and the smaller, bright “pop-up” clouds that form in the highest parts of the atmosphere.
The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year journey of 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion km) from Earth.
After a successful braking maneuver, it entered a long polar orbit flying within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet’s swirling cloud tops.
The probe came within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet’s clouds once a fortnight – too close to provide global coverage in a single image.
No previous spacecraft has orbited this close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent to plunge to their doom through its atmosphere.
The new images were released by NASA just days after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the stunning auroras shining around Jupiter’s north and south poles.
As Jupiter rotates, it drags along its magnetic field which is bombarded by solar wind particles, resulting in fluctuations that create auroras.
This is a similar process to how the solar winds create the wonderful auroras on Earth.
When Mr. Jónsson increased the color saturation and contrast, small-scale features were sharpened while reducing any compression artifacts and noise
Along with the glowing poles, the images show incredible detail of the turbulent atmosphere, rings around the planet and some of Jupiter’s 79 moons can be seen glowing around the giant planet.
Astronomers working with JWST are equally amazed to see the amazing detail in the images, with astronomer Imke de Pater saying he and the team didn’t expect the results to be this good.
“It’s really remarkable that we can see details of Jupiter along with its rings, tiny moons and even its galaxies in one image,” said de Pater, who is also a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
The images were taken with the telescope’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which is capable of detecting infrared light from the earliest stars and galaxies.
The new images were released by NASA just days after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the stunning auroras shining around Jupiter’s north and south poles. One image (pictured), which shows just Jupiter, is a composite of several images and shows the auroras blowing in bright orange, yellow and green over Jupiter’s north and south poles
How NASA’s Juno probe to Jupiter will reveal the secrets of the solar system’s largest planet
The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter in 2016 after a five-year, 1.8-billion-mile journey from Earth The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year journey of 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion km) from Earth. After a successful braking maneuver, it entered a long polar orbit flying within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet’s swirling cloud tops. The probe came within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet’s clouds once a fortnight – too close to provide global coverage in a single image. No previous spacecraft has orbited this close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent to plunge to their doom through its atmosphere. To complete its perilous mission, Juno survived a circuit-frying radiation storm created by Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field. The vortex of high-energy particles traveling at nearly the speed of light is the harshest radiation environment in the Solar System. To cope with the conditions, the spacecraft was protected with special radiation-hardened wiring and sensor shielding. Its all-important “brain”—the spacecraft’s flight computer—was housed in an armored titanium vault and weighed nearly 400 pounds (172 kg). The craft is expected to study the composition of the planet’s atmosphere until 2025.
title: “Nasa S Juno Probe Takes A Stunning Photo Of Jupiter That Reveals The Planet S True Colors Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-21” author: “Travis Hughes”
The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and swirling patterns of the planet’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5. The raw images taken by the JunoCam instrument became available to the public, and then software engineer Björn Jónsson stepped in to process them. Mr Jónsson edited an image to depict the approximate colors the human eye would be able to see from Juno’s vantage point. He then created another, using the same data, with increased saturation and contrast that gave a cleaner and more colorful view of Jupiter. The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and swirling patterns of Jupiter’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5, 2022 An approximately true color and contrast image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from raw image frames PJ44_46 produced by NASA’s JunoCam instrument. North is up An enhanced image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from the raw image frames PJ43_41 produced by NASA’s JunoCam. Contrast and color saturation have been increased and small-scale features have been sharpened. Special processing was also used to reduce compression artifacts and noise in the image. North is up
Jupiter: The basics
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in our solar system.
It is a huge ball of gas composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with some heavy elements.
“Jupiter’s familiar streaks and swirls are actually cold, stormy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium,” NASA said.
“Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm larger than Earth that has been raging for hundreds of years.”
The planet is twice the size of all the other planets combined, and the Great Red Spot alone is big enough to fit the entire Earth inside.
NASA’s Juno orbiter is currently exploring the planet.
Distance from the Sun: 750 million km
Orbit period: 12 years
Area: 61.42 billion km²
Radius: 69,911 km
Mass: 1.898 × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕)
Day duration: 0d 9h 56m
Moons: 53 with official designations. countless extra moons
At the time the instrument passed, it was about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 50 degrees.
The spacecraft was traveling at about 130,000 mph (209,000 kilometers per hour) relative to the planet.
Mr. Jónsson, a citizen scientist and self-proclaimed advanced amateur processor of planetary images, managed to visualize the structure of Jupiter’s clouds.
When it increased color saturation and contrast, small-scale features were sharpened while reducing any compression artifacts and noise.
The variety of colors results from the different chemical composition in the planet’s atmosphere.
His processed images also show the three-dimensional nature of Jupiter’s large swirling eddies and the smaller, bright “pop-up” clouds that form in the highest parts of the atmosphere.
The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year journey of 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion km) from Earth.
After a successful braking maneuver, it entered a long polar orbit flying within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet’s swirling cloud tops.
The probe came within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet’s clouds once a fortnight – too close to provide global coverage in a single image.
No previous spacecraft has orbited this close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent to plunge to their doom through its atmosphere.
The new images were released by NASA just days after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the stunning auroras shining around Jupiter’s north and south poles.
As Jupiter rotates, it drags along its magnetic field which is bombarded by solar wind particles, resulting in fluctuations that create auroras.
This is a similar process to how the solar winds create the wonderful auroras on Earth.
When Mr. Jónsson increased the color saturation and contrast, small-scale features were sharpened while reducing any compression artifacts and noise
Along with the glowing poles, the images show incredible detail of the turbulent atmosphere, rings around the planet and some of Jupiter’s 79 moons can be seen glowing around the giant planet.
Astronomers working with JWST are equally amazed to see the amazing detail in the images, with astronomer Imke de Pater saying he and the team didn’t expect the results to be this good.
“It’s really remarkable that we can see details of Jupiter along with its rings, tiny moons and even its galaxies in one image,” said de Pater, who is also a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
The images were taken with the telescope’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which is capable of detecting infrared light from the earliest stars and galaxies.
The new images were released by NASA just days after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the stunning auroras shining around Jupiter’s north and south poles. One image (pictured), which shows just Jupiter, is a composite of several images and shows the auroras blowing in bright orange, yellow and green over Jupiter’s north and south poles
How NASA’s Juno probe to Jupiter will reveal the secrets of the solar system’s largest planet
The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter in 2016 after a five-year, 1.8-billion-mile journey from Earth The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year journey of 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion km) from Earth. After a successful braking maneuver, it entered a long polar orbit flying within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet’s swirling cloud tops. The probe came within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet’s clouds once a fortnight – too close to provide global coverage in a single image. No previous spacecraft has orbited this close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent to plunge to their doom through its atmosphere. To complete its perilous mission, Juno survived a circuit-frying radiation storm created by Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field. The vortex of high-energy particles traveling at nearly the speed of light is the harshest radiation environment in the Solar System. To cope with the conditions, the spacecraft was protected with special radiation-hardened wiring and sensor shielding. Its all-important “brain”—the spacecraft’s flight computer—was housed in an armored titanium vault and weighed nearly 400 pounds (172 kg). The craft is expected to study the composition of the planet’s atmosphere until 2025.
title: “Nasa S Juno Probe Takes A Stunning Photo Of Jupiter That Reveals The Planet S True Colors Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-30” author: “Maria Goins”
The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and swirling patterns of the planet’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5. The raw images taken by the JunoCam instrument became available to the public, and then software engineer Björn Jónsson stepped in to process them. Mr Jónsson edited an image to depict the approximate colors the human eye would be able to see from Juno’s vantage point. He then created another, using the same data, with increased saturation and contrast that gave a cleaner and more colorful view of Jupiter. The Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and swirling patterns of Jupiter’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby on July 5, 2022 An approximately true color and contrast image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from raw image frames PJ44_46 produced by NASA’s JunoCam instrument. North is up An enhanced image of Jupiter processed by Björn Jónsson from the raw image frames PJ43_41 produced by NASA’s JunoCam. Contrast and color saturation have been increased and small-scale features have been sharpened. Special processing was also used to reduce compression artifacts and noise in the image. North is up
Jupiter: The basics
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in our solar system.
It is a huge ball of gas composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with some heavy elements.
“Jupiter’s familiar streaks and swirls are actually cold, stormy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium,” NASA said.
“Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm larger than Earth that has been raging for hundreds of years.”
The planet is twice the size of all the other planets combined, and the Great Red Spot alone is big enough to fit the entire Earth inside.
NASA’s Juno orbiter is currently exploring the planet.
Distance from the Sun: 750 million km
Orbit period: 12 years
Area: 61.42 billion km²
Radius: 69,911 km
Mass: 1.898 × 10^27 kg (317.8 M⊕)
Day duration: 0d 9h 56m
Moons: 53 with official designations. countless extra moons
At the time the instrument passed, it was about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 50 degrees.
The spacecraft was traveling at about 130,000 mph (209,000 kilometers per hour) relative to the planet.
Mr. Jónsson, a citizen scientist and self-proclaimed advanced amateur processor of planetary images, managed to visualize the structure of Jupiter’s clouds.
When it increased color saturation and contrast, small-scale features were sharpened while reducing any compression artifacts and noise.
The variety of colors results from the different chemical composition in the planet’s atmosphere.
His processed images also show the three-dimensional nature of Jupiter’s large swirling eddies and the smaller, bright “pop-up” clouds that form in the highest parts of the atmosphere.
The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year journey of 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion km) from Earth.
After a successful braking maneuver, it entered a long polar orbit flying within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet’s swirling cloud tops.
The probe came within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet’s clouds once a fortnight – too close to provide global coverage in a single image.
No previous spacecraft has orbited this close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent to plunge to their doom through its atmosphere.
The new images were released by NASA just days after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the stunning auroras shining around Jupiter’s north and south poles.
As Jupiter rotates, it drags along its magnetic field which is bombarded by solar wind particles, resulting in fluctuations that create auroras.
This is a similar process to how the solar winds create the wonderful auroras on Earth.
When Mr. Jónsson increased the color saturation and contrast, small-scale features were sharpened while reducing any compression artifacts and noise
Along with the glowing poles, the images show incredible detail of the turbulent atmosphere, rings around the planet and some of Jupiter’s 79 moons can be seen glowing around the giant planet.
Astronomers working with JWST are equally amazed to see the amazing detail in the images, with astronomer Imke de Pater saying he and the team didn’t expect the results to be this good.
“It’s really remarkable that we can see details of Jupiter along with its rings, tiny moons and even its galaxies in one image,” said de Pater, who is also a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
The images were taken with the telescope’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which is capable of detecting infrared light from the earliest stars and galaxies.
The new images were released by NASA just days after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the stunning auroras shining around Jupiter’s north and south poles. One image (pictured), which shows just Jupiter, is a composite of several images and shows the auroras blowing in bright orange, yellow and green over Jupiter’s north and south poles
How NASA’s Juno probe to Jupiter will reveal the secrets of the solar system’s largest planet
The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter in 2016 after a five-year, 1.8-billion-mile journey from Earth The Juno probe arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year journey of 1.8 billion miles (2.8 billion km) from Earth. After a successful braking maneuver, it entered a long polar orbit flying within 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet’s swirling cloud tops. The probe came within just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of the planet’s clouds once a fortnight – too close to provide global coverage in a single image. No previous spacecraft has orbited this close to Jupiter, although two others have been sent to plunge to their doom through its atmosphere. To complete its perilous mission, Juno survived a circuit-frying radiation storm created by Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field. The vortex of high-energy particles traveling at nearly the speed of light is the harshest radiation environment in the Solar System. To cope with the conditions, the spacecraft was protected with special radiation-hardened wiring and sensor shielding. Its all-important “brain”—the spacecraft’s flight computer—was housed in an armored titanium vault and weighed nearly 400 pounds (172 kg). The craft is expected to study the composition of the planet’s atmosphere until 2025.