NASA’s Juno Mission Reveals Jupiter’s Complex Colors

 Caros Leitores;

NASA’s Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and structure of Jupiter’s clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby of the giant planet on July 5, 2022.

Citizen scientist Björn Jónsson created these two images using raw data from the JunoCam instrument aboard the spacecraft. At the time the raw image was taken, Juno was about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 50 degrees. North is up. At that moment, the spacecraft was traveling at about 130,000 mph (209,000 kilometers per hour) relative to the planet.

The first image (left) was processed to portray the approximate colors that the human eye would see from Juno’s vantage point. The second image (right) comes from the same raw data, but in this case Jónsson digitally processed it to increase both the color saturation and contrast to sharpen small-scale features and to reduce compression artifacts and noise that typically appear in raw images. This clearly reveals some of the most intriguing aspects of Jupiter’s atmosphere, including color variation that results from differing chemical composition, the three-dimensional nature of Jupiter’s swirling vortices, and the small, bright “pop-up” clouds that form in the higher parts of the atmosphere.

JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing.  More information about NASA citizen science can be found at 

https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience and https://www.nasa.gov/solve/opportunities/citizenscience.

More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu. For more about this finding and other science results, see

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings.

Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Image processing by Björn Jónsson © CC NC SA

Fonte:  NASA  / Editor: Tony Greicius / Publication 30-08-2022

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/nasa-s-juno-mission-reveals-jupiter-s-complex-colors/

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Web Science Academy; Hélio R.M.Cabral (Economista, Escritor e Divulgador de conteúdos da Astronomia, Astrofísica, Astrobiologia e Climatologia).Participou do curso (EAD) de Astrofísica, concluído em 2020, pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC).

Autor do livro: “Conhecendo o Sol e outras Estrelas”.

Acompanha e divulga os conteúdos científicos da NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency) e outras organizações científicas e tecnológicas.

Participa do projeto S`Cool Ground Observation (Observações de Nuvens) que é integrado ao Projeto CERES (Clouds and Earth´s Radiant Energy System) administrado pela NASA. A partir de 2019, tornou-se membro da Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira (SAB), como astrônomo amador.

Participa também do projeto The Globe Program / NASA Globe Cloud, um Programa de Ciência e Educação Worldwide, que também tem o objetivo de monitorar o Clima em toda a Terra. Este projeto é patrocinado pela NASA e National Science Fundation (NSF), e apoiado pela National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) e U.S Department of State.

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