Juno took this image from a distance of 23,500 km above the planet’s cloud tops.
Incredible images of Jupiter, which resemble abstract watercolor paintings, have emerged from NASA through its Juno mission. On Monday, NASA shared stunning new images captured by Juno showing powerful storms around Jupiter. The spacecraft captured this image at an altitude of 23,500 km above the planet’s cloud tops.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration posted on Instagram that the Juno spacecraft captured the photo as it completed its 24th flyby of Jupiter over the planets in July 2019.
The space agency said: “Our Juno spacecraft captured storms here in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere when it made its 24th close pass of the gas giant in 2019. The spacecraft captured this image 14,000 miles above the planet’s cloud tops.”
He added: “Juno arrived at Jupiter in 2016 and has been studying our solar system’s largest planet and its moons, learning about gas giants and searching for the basic building blocks of life beyond Earth.”
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The photo shows storms on Jupiter in shades of blue and white. They appear in large swirling patterns with wavy patterns between the circles.
The photo, which was shared a few hours ago, has already garnered more than 6 lakh likes. Internet users flooded the comment section with love and fire emojis. While some users called the photo “stunning,” others called it “gorgeous.”
Commenting on the photo, one user wrote, “Beautiful.”
“Hewitching,” another user commented on Instagram.
“Drops from Jupiter! Incredible NASA view,” commented the third user.
Jupiter is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with traces of other gases. Streaks and some storms dominate the colorful appearance of Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun with a diameter of about 143,000 km.
Juno has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, gaining information about its atmosphere, internal structure, internal magnetic field, and the area around it created by internal magnetism.
