Jupiter’s clouds in 3D
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Another cool image! The picture to the right, cropped and reduced to post here, was created by a team of citizen scientists from a raw Juno image during its 40th close fly-by of Jupiter. From the caption:
Visual interpretation of relief (exaggerated) on Jupiter based on depth estimation from a single image
2D process: Enhanced RGB, enlargement and crop of image taken on 2022-02-25 02:21 UT – perijove 40 – Junocam
Process on 3d image : not based on a DTM, but a visual interpretation of the surface by depth estimation from a single image
The white box on the global image on the upper left marks the approximate area coverd by the oblique 3D picture. Though the vertical relief is greatly exaggerated as well as simulated from a flat image, it provides us a nice sense of the turbulent nature of Jupiter’s more active bands. The larger structures in the colored band appear to act like giant waves in a river rapids. And for reasons not yet understood, the more active areas of that upper atmosphere is divided into bands determined by latitude.
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Another cool image! The picture to the right, cropped and reduced to post here, was created by a team of citizen scientists from a raw Juno image during its 40th close fly-by of Jupiter. From the caption:
Visual interpretation of relief (exaggerated) on Jupiter based on depth estimation from a single image
2D process: Enhanced RGB, enlargement and crop of image taken on 2022-02-25 02:21 UT – perijove 40 – Junocam
Process on 3d image : not based on a DTM, but a visual interpretation of the surface by depth estimation from a single image
The white box on the global image on the upper left marks the approximate area coverd by the oblique 3D picture. Though the vertical relief is greatly exaggerated as well as simulated from a flat image, it provides us a nice sense of the turbulent nature of Jupiter’s more active bands. The larger structures in the colored band appear to act like giant waves in a river rapids. And for reasons not yet understood, the more active areas of that upper atmosphere is divided into bands determined by latitude.
Readers!
My annual February birthday fund-raising drive for Behind the Black is now over. Thank you to everyone who donated or subscribed. While not a record-setter, the donations were more than sufficient and slightly above average.
As I have said many times before, I can’t express what it means to me to get such support, especially as no one is required to pay anything to read my work. Thank you all again!
For those readers who like my work here at Behind the Black and haven't contributed so far, please consider donating or subscribing. My analysis of space, politics, and culture, taken from the perspective of an historian, is almost always on the money and ahead of the game. For example, in 2020 I correctly predicted that the COVID panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Every one of those 2020 conclusions has turned out right.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
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Could have been designed by Salvador Dali.
The Great Red Spot a huge Hurricane that would make Harvey and Irma look like Summer Breezes