NASA's Juno Probe Just Delivered Astonishing New Photos of Jupiter

[Judi Lynn]

NASA's Juno Probe Just Delivered Astonishing New Photos of Jupiter
We could stare at these pictures all day...


DAVE MOSHER, BUSINESS INSIDER
11 APR 2018

Once every 53.5 days, NASA's Juno probe screams over Jupiter's cloud tops roughly 75 times as fast as a bullet.

The spacecraft has used these high-speed flybys, called perijoves, to document the gas giant like never before since August 2016. It records the planet with radar systems, radiation detectors, magnetic and gravitational field recorders, and more.

But NASA's beautiful new images of Jupiter come from an optical camera called JunoCam. After each perijove, the space agency uploads the raw photo data to its websites.

Juno finished its 12th perijove on April 1. Since then, people around the world have downloaded JunoCam's raw black-and-white data, processed it into stunning colour pictures, and shared the files for all to see.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-s-juno-probe-just-sent-back-amazing-new-photos-of-jupiter

[yonder]

1. Science!

or a half-illuminated painted disc in a Holywood lab?

I'll go for science, Alex.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Holy crap!

Bullets are REALLY fast. And this thing went some 75 times faster?? Wow. That's all I can say, is wow.

Gorgeous picture.

[procon]

3. I had no idea that Jupiter was so beautiful, thanks for the link! nt