Looking down into a Jupiter hurricane
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Cool image time! The photo to the right, cropped and reduced to post here, was created by citizen scientists Kevin Gill and Navaneeth Krishnan from a raw image taken by Juno during its 40th close fly-by of Jupiter in February 2022.
I don’t have a scale, but I would guess that this storm is at least a thousand miles across. The depth is harder to measure, but we looking down into a deep whirlpool for sure.
To bring out the details Gill and Krishnan enhanced the colors significantly. The original is quite bland in comparison, with this storm being the faint dark spot just below the center near the photo’s left edge.
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Cool image time! The photo to the right, cropped and reduced to post here, was created by citizen scientists Kevin Gill and Navaneeth Krishnan from a raw image taken by Juno during its 40th close fly-by of Jupiter in February 2022.
I don’t have a scale, but I would guess that this storm is at least a thousand miles across. The depth is harder to measure, but we looking down into a deep whirlpool for sure.
To bring out the details Gill and Krishnan enhanced the colors significantly. The original is quite bland in comparison, with this storm being the faint dark spot just below the center near the photo’s left edge.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the 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. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
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That’s like a surreal high-on-drugs 1950s painting. Awesome.
The technology currently does not exist to also see the sharks swirling about.
“… the sharks swirling about”
Actually …
Are you sure that isn’t the eye of a giant squid? I mean a really, really giant squid?
Occam’s Razor: Do not multiply complexities unnecessarily.
Squid(s) are not documented to be associated with tornadoes. Frogs, or fish, sometimes. Flying monkeys, once.
“Ah…” (yawn) “Just another amazing image from our robots exploring the solar system.”
Dilbert cartoon alert: https://assets.amuniversal.com/e1bb47c08db4013a9f54005056a9545d
Be safe. Don’t click on the link. Paste it into your browser address window. Or not.
Or, just go to https://dilbert.com/
Lovecraftian
Are you suspecting Robert Zimmerman’s quiet hosting is disguising nefarious intent?
Maybe he’s the AI’s simulation of a website’s “Moderator”.
Or maybe something more different (Zappa reference.)
‘I went down, down, down; into a swirling ring of destruction
I went down, down, down; into a monstrous construction.’
A very cool image.
Thank you RZ for bringing us these “cool image time”s. I remember my first view of Jupiter using a drug store telescope. I was thrilled at the time, that I could see a small white disc (smudge actually) with four moons, lined up at the equator. These images today are “out of this world”, pun intended!