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Yet, during its 57th close pass of Jupiter in December 2023, the spacecraft’s JunoCam camera faced an unexpected challenge: ...
NASA has successfully restored a damaged camera aboard its Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter. The recovery of JunoCam, a ...
Jupiter’s magnetic field is extremely intense, about 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s own. Researchers tracked the magnetic field over several years thanks to NASA’s Juno mission , gaining ...
Meanwhile, the image also provides an update on Jupiter's Great Red Spot, which is now 9,800 miles across — that, NASA notes, makes it big enough to 'swallow' our entire planet.
JunoCam was sent to capture high-resolution images of Jupiter -- color images in the visible ... During its tenure around Jupiter, Juno will make some 37 orbits, collecting data on Jupiter's ...
image: This color image of Jupiter is a composite made of 3 images taken by the narrow angle camera on October 4 from a distance of 81.3 million kilometers from the planet. It is composed of ...
For instance, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot—the persistent storm system big enough to swallow Earth whole. Although, in the infrared, it appears as a ring of fire around a pupil of darkness.
Scientists have long sought to explain the mechanism behind Jupiter’s spectacular northern lights. A new study says they are triggered by a phenomenon called electromagnetic ion cyclotron (EMIC ...
An artificially colored view of Jupiter as seen in ultraviolet light. In addition to the Great Red Spot, which appears blue, another oval feature can be seen in the brown haze at Jupiter's south pole.
Cyclones at the north pole of Jupiter appear as swirls of striking colors in this extreme false color rendering of an image from NASA’s Juno mission. The huge, persistent cyclone ...