Perseverance might have sucked up a lot of the oxygen in the room this week as far as astrophotography debuts go, but the Juno spacecraft is still turning out amazing photographs as well.
Sent to study our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter, Juno’s “principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars.”
And, thanks to NASA, we get to see the results of its research first hand. An image captured last December gives us a “…view of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet’s southern jet streams. Using data from Juno’s instruments, scientists discovered that Jupiter’s powerful atmospheric jet streams extend far deeper than previously imagined. Evidence from Juno shows the jet streams and belts penetrate about 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) down into the planet.”
You can view the image for yourself at this link.
As for what you’re seeing, the “Great Red Spot is also visible on the horizon, nearly rotated out of view as Juno sped away from Jupiter at about 30 miles per second (48 kilometers per second), which is more than 100,000 mph (160,900 kilometers per hour).”
Credit to the folks over at DPReview for bringing this to the web’s attention.
In case you missed our Perseverance photos, you can check them out here and here.
Check out some of our other photography news at this link right here!
[DPReview]
Light Stalking https://ift.tt/3b1HtPO
Sourced by Time Trap Photography sharing the best photography tips, news and tricks throughout the industry. Time Trap Photography is dedicated to freezing those special moments in life that can be revisited and admired for generations to come. - Shannon Bourque
Please visit our main site for booking availability and rates.
Receive valuable industry knowledge delivered free to your email each day.
.png){kind=link}
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thank you so much for your comment. A moderator will review and approve all relevant posts. We appreciate your support and encourage you to stay with us by subscribing to our email updates. Where you can easily pick and choose what photography subjects interests you. Subscription link: http://bit.ly/photo-sub