April 10, 2017

Jupiter's Atmosphere

Jupiter's Atmosphere

NASA's Juno spacecraft skimmed the upper wisps of Jupiter's atmosphere when JunoCam snapped this image on February 2 at 5:13 a.m. PT (8:13 a.m. ET), from an altitude of about 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) above the giant planet's swirling cloudtops.

Streams of clouds spin off a rotating oval-shaped cloud system in the Jovian southern hemisphere. Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko reconstructed the color and cropped the image to draw viewers' eyes to the storm and the turbulence around it.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko
Explanation from: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21383

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