Juno's photos of Jupiter
NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe has taken mind-bending new photos of the gas giant
NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft completed its 10th high-speed trip around Jupiter on December 16.
The robot gets relatively close to the gas giant planet and takes new photos with its JunoCam instrument roughly every 53 days , while traveling at speeds up to 130,000 mph.
It can take days or sometimes weeks to receive the images, but the wait is worth it . The latest batch of photos features countless swirling, hallucinatory clouds and storms.
Researchers at NASA and the Southwest Research Institute uploaded the raw image data to their websites in late December. Since then, dozens of people have processed the black-and-white files into gorgeous, calendar-ready color pictures.
"As pretty as a planet can get, but get too close and Jupiter will END YOU," Sean Doran , a UK-based graphic artist who regularly processes NASA images, said about the new images in a tweet .
Here are some of the best new photos and animations made with JunoCam data by Doran and other fans of the spacecraft.
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No need to tell me twice. I can only imagine what would happen to a human being if he/she stranded on Jupiter. As big as it is, it has to have a lot of gravitational pull. I think it would crush you.
Not to mention a distinct lack of terra firma... What gorgeous pictures!!! Thanks for sharing them!
You're welcome. I found the article on my Firefox homepage this morning and couldn't wait to share them.
I'm trying to wrap my head around the concept of a gas giant, Terran that I am.
Yeah, me, too!