Credit & Copyright: NASA,
Juno,
SwRI,
MSSS,
Gerald Eichstadt;
Music:
Moonlight Sonata
(Ludwig van Beethoven)
Explanation:
Here comes Jupiter!
NASA's robotic spacecraft
Juno
is continuing on its highly-elongated
orbits around our Solar System's largest planet.
The featured video is from perijove 11 in early 2018, the eleventh time
Juno
has passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016.
This time-lapse, color-enhanced movie covers about
four hours and morphs between 36 JunoCam images.
The video begins with Jupiter rising as
Juno
approaches from the north.
As Juno reaches its closest view -- from about 3,500 kilometers
over Jupiter's cloud tops --
the spacecraft captures the great planet in tremendous detail.
Juno passes light zones and dark
belt of clouds that circle the planet, as well as numerous swirling circular storms,
many of which are larger than
hurricanes on Earth.
After the perijove,
Jupiter recedes into the distance,
then displaying the unusual clouds that appear over Jupiter's south.
To get desired
science
data, Juno swoops so close to
Jupiter
that its instruments are exposed to
very high levels of radiation.
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