NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Strange Frowning Face on Jupiter During 54th Close Flyby

NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Strange Frowning Face on Jupiter During 54th Close Flyby

NASA Juno Mission Frowning Face Jupiter
NASA’s Juno mission captured a strange frowning face on Jupiter during its 54th close flyby on September 7th. This oddity was spotted in the gas giant’s far northern regions, called Jet N7, where turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator reside.


NASA Juno Mission Frowning Face Jupiter
Jupiter’s terminator is basically the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. Scientists study the low angle of sunlight highlights the complex topography of features in this region to better understand the processes occurring in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

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Citizen scientist Vladimir Tarasov made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 4,800 miles (about 7,700 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 69 degrees north,” said NASA.


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Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Serene Ultraviolet View of Jupiter

Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Serene Ultraviolet View of Jupiter

Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Jupiter
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a serene view of Jupiter in ultraviolet wavelengths. The gas giant’s iconic “Great Red Spot” may appear red to human eyes, but this ultraviolet image provides a different, darker view, caused by the high altitude haze particles absorbing light at these wavelengths.


Hubble Space Telescope Ultraviolet Jupiter
On another note, the typical reddish, wavy polar hazes are absorbing a bit less of this light due to differences in either particle size, composition, or altitude. Astronomers created this ultraviolet image using part that is part of a Hubble proposal studying Jupiter’s stealthy superstorm system. Eventually, the team plans to map deep water clouds using the Hubble data to define 3D cloud structures in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

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This is a false-color image because the human eye cannot detect ultraviolet light. Therefore, colors in the visible light spectrum were assigned to the images, each taken with a different ultraviolet filter. In this case, the assigned colors for each filter are: Blue: F225W, Green: F275W, and Red: F343N,” said the NASA Hubble Mission Team.

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