Jupiter's Rings from the Inside! First-Ever View Captured by Juno

[Judi Lynn]

By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | May 26, 2017 07:45am ET



Humanity now has a new perspective on Jupiter's rings, thanks to NASA's Juno spacecraft.

During its initial data-collecting dive over Jupiter's poles on Aug. 27, 2016, Juno captured the first-ever photo of the giant planet's faint ring system from the inside, mission team members revealed Thursday (May 25).

The photo, which Juno took with its star-tracking navigation camera, also shows part of the constellation Orion, including the bright star Betelgeuse and the three stars that make up Orion's belt. [Photos: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter]

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"What you're looking at here is a ring of dust that's 40,000 miles [64,000 kilometers] away [from Juno] and stars that are hundreds of light-years away, all in the same picture," Heidi Becker, Juno's radiation-monitoring investigation lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said during a press conference Thursday.

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[justhanginon]

1. When you stop and think about where this picture was taken

from and the background it shows, it truly boggles the mind. We have really come a long way since Galileo's first observations of the heavens.

[lastlib]

2. Science has given us this capability.

Irrationality gives us Trumpf.