NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed this week the ‘Complex’ colors and Jupiter’s cloud structure completing its forty-third close flyby of the giant planet, which took place on July 5, 2022.
Scientist Björn Jónsson created two images using raw data from the JunoCam instrument, which was on board the spacecraft. At the time the raw image was taken, Juno was about 5,300 kilometers above the clouds of Jupiter, at a latitude of about 50 degrees, and was traveling at about 209,000 kilometers per hour in relation to the planet.
The first image was processed to represent the approximate colors that the human eye would see from Juno’s point of view, while the second image is from the same raw data, but in this case Jónsson digitally edited it to increase both color saturation and contrastwith the aim of fine-tuning small-scale features and reducing noise.
NASA notes that this reveals some of the most “intriguing” aspects of Jupiter’s atmospheresuch as the variation in color that results from different chemical composition, the three-dimensional nature of Jupiter’s spinning vortices, or the small, bright emerging clouds that form higher in the atmosphere.
Source: Lasexta
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