NASA’s Juno spacecraft was launched on August 5, 2011, and entered orbit around For on July 4, 2016. Since then, Juno has been exploring both the gas giant and its satellites, and has already provided an invaluable amount of data about the system of its largest planet. our solar system.
NASA gave the advertising a stunning color photograph of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere that closely resembles the famous ‘Starry Night,’ the painting Vincent van Gogh created while gazing at the night sky just before sunrise in the asylum room where he was hospitalized following the amputation of his ear.
The image was taken on May 12, when Juno made its 61st close approach to Jupiter, and provides a detailed look at chaotic clouds and cyclonic storms in a region of the planet’s northern hemisphere.
These detailed images illuminate the complex and intense atmospheric phenomena created on Jupiter, which are a permanent field of observation for the scientific community.
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