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Title
The Swirling Cloud Formations Of Jupiter
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
"Jupiter's Swirling Cloud Formations"
See swirling cloud formations in the northern area of Jupiter's north temperate belt in this view taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
The color-enhanced image was taken on Feb. 7, 2018 at 5:42 a.m. PST (8:42 a.m. EST), as Juno performed its eleventh close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 5,086 miles (8,186 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of 39.9 degrees.
Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.
JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.
More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
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February 18th, 2018
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