{"id":770463,"date":"2023-10-25T16:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770463"},"modified":"2023-10-25T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:26:15","slug":"just-in-time-for-halloween-nasas-juno-mission-spots-eerie-face-on-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=770463","title":{"rendered":"Just in Time for Halloween, NASA\u2019s Juno Mission Spots Eerie \u201cFace\u201d on Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter\u2019s terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th<\/sup> close flyby of Jupiter, NASA\u2019s Juno mission captured this view of an area in the giant planet\u2019s far northern regions called Jet N7. The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter\u2019s terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. The low angle of sunlight highlights the complex topography of features in this region, which scientists have studied to better understand the processes playing out in Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

As often occurs in views from Juno, Jupiter\u2019s clouds in this picture lend themselves to pareidolia, the effect that causes observers to perceive faces or other patterns in largely random patterns.<\/p>\n

Citizen scientist Vladimir Tarasov made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 4,800 miles (about 7,700 kilometers) above Jupiter\u2019s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 69 degrees north.<\/p>\n

JunoCam\u2019s raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at\u00a0https:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu\/junocam\/processing<\/a>.\u00a0More information about NASA citizen science can be found at https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/citizenscience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More information about Juno is at https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/juno<\/a> and https:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu<\/a>. For more about this finding and other science results, see https:\/\/www.missionjuno.swri.edu\/science-findings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Image data: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/SwRI\/MSSS<\/p>\n

Image processing by Vladimir Tarasov \u00a9 CC BY<\/p>\n


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