Storms are brewing on Jupiter: NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently snapped an image of a chaotic region on the planet and it’s a swirly sight.
Known as a folded filamentary region, this stormy area of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere is nothing like Earth. Unlike our planet, Jupiter doesn’t have a solid surface. Data obtained from Juno shows that some of Jupiter’s winds last longer and run deeper than our planet’s atmospheric processes.
Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill developed the enhanced image above using JunoCam camera data. The original image was snapped on Dec. 26 at 12:14 p.m. ET, as Juno made its 24th close flyby of Jupiter. During its close encounter, Juno was roughly 14,600 miles from the planet’s clouds.
Beauty in motion: Here’s another striking view from my latest close pass by Jupiter. https://t.co/kx02NjCDRW
Image processing by Kevin M. Gill. pic.twitter.com/44Z5Mfe5Nf— NASA’s Juno Mission (@NASAJuno) January 24, 2020
This isn’t the first time Juno caught a sweet view of Jupiter’s complex regions: In October, the spacecraft spotted the planet’s windy and vivid “Jet N4” region. Jupiter spins once every 10 hours and its rapid rotation develops strong jet streams, separating clouds into dark belts and bright zones that span the gas giant.
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