NASA has a released a new image of Jupiter captured on Dec 11, 2016 by JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The image has been processed by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstaedt and John Rogers. The caption of the image was also drafted by them. NASA posts JunoCam’s raw images at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam to allow the public […]
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NASA Releases New Images Captured by Juno Showing Crescent Shaped Jupiter and Its Great Red Spot
NASA has released an astonishing new picture of Jupiter, showing a crescent Jupiter, along with its iconic Great Red Spot and planet’s megastorm. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and appears to astronomers as a deep red orb surrounded by layers of orange, pale yellow, and white. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is […]
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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