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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Click for full image.
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.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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!