Massive structures of moving air that appear like waves in Jupiter’s atmosphere were first detected by NASA’s Voyager missions during their flybys of the gas-giant world in 1979. The JunoCam camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter has also imaged the atmosphere. JunoCam data has detected atmospheric wave trains, towering atmospheric structures that trail one […]
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Gorgeous! Juno Sends a High-Resolution Image of Jupiter’s Cloudscape
Juno spacecraft has sent a high-resolution, close-up image of Jupiter, showing the turbulent region just west of the Great Red Spot in the South Equatorial Belt. The image was captured with JunoCam citizen science instrument on Dec 11, 2016, when Juno was flying at an altitude of just 8,700 kilometers above Jupiter’s cloudtops. With help […]
Juno Sends New Images of Cyclone Swirls and White Oval storms on Jupiter
Last week, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully completed its fourth flyby of Jupiter and later sent some new stunning pictures of white oval storms and cyclone swirls on the planet. The new image clearly shows the cyclone swirls around the south polar region of Jupiter, and white oval storms near the edge of the planet. Juno’s […]
NASA’s Solar-powered Juno Spacecraft Captures Pics of Jupiter’s ‘Pearl’
Using its onboard camera JunoCam imager, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured the pictures of the seventh of Jupiter‘s eight massive counter-clockwise rotating storms. The images were taken on December 11 when the spacecraft was performing its third close flyby of the planet, while being about 24,600 km from the planet. Jupiter‘s eight storms are simply […]
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