TLG
04-13-2018, 05:38 PM
NASA's Juno Spacecraft continues to send new information concerning Jupiter back home in unprecedented detail.
The U.S. space agency shared an infrared flyover tour of Jupiter's North Pole and some of the planet's massive polar storms. This data and footage were shared at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly on Wednesday in Vienna, NASA reports in a news release.
"Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," Alberto Adriani, Juno co-investigator, said in the release.
"Now, with Juno flying over the poles at a close distance it permits the collection of infrared imagery on Jupiter's polar weather patterns and its massive cyclones in unprecedented spatial resolution."
The space agency says that scientists on the Juno team collected the data and 3-D imagery using the spacecraft's Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper. The instrument is able to capture light from Jupiter's insides, and can even probe weather beneath the planet's cloud tops from 30 to 45 miles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By6sZ6RGCEQ
The U.S. space agency shared an infrared flyover tour of Jupiter's North Pole and some of the planet's massive polar storms. This data and footage were shared at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly on Wednesday in Vienna, NASA reports in a news release.
"Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," Alberto Adriani, Juno co-investigator, said in the release.
"Now, with Juno flying over the poles at a close distance it permits the collection of infrared imagery on Jupiter's polar weather patterns and its massive cyclones in unprecedented spatial resolution."
The space agency says that scientists on the Juno team collected the data and 3-D imagery using the spacecraft's Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper. The instrument is able to capture light from Jupiter's insides, and can even probe weather beneath the planet's cloud tops from 30 to 45 miles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By6sZ6RGCEQ