Tag: JunoCam

  • NASA’s Juno spacecraft sees moon’s otherworldly shadow on Jupiter

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    The shadow of Jupiter’s moon Io is cast on the cloud tops of the giant planet in this view taken Sept. 12 by a camera on-board NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Kevin Gill, a software engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, created this mosaic from imagery taken by the JunoCam instrument. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill Fresh images…

  • NASA approves three-year extension for Juno mission orbiting Jupiter

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    Artist’s concept of the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s robotic Juno spacecraft wil spend another three years probing the inside of Jupiter, giving the mission more time to meet its primary science objectives after concerns over the health of the probe’s engine prevented it from dropping into a lower, shorter orbit around the…

  • Jupiter images thrill, inspire public participation

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A JunoCam view of Jupiter as processed by Seán Doran, an artist who interprets imagery sent back from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The image is based on earlier processing by Gerald Eichstädt, using custom software. Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Processing images from the camera aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft orbiting…

  • First images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reach Earth

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION An enhanced color view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from the Juno spacecraft flyby Monday. Credit: NASA / SWRI / MSSS / Greg Smye-Rumsby / Astronomy Now Two days after NASA’s Juno spacecraft streaked over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, pictures of the solar system’s largest, most powerful storm,…

  • Ride with NASA’s Juno orbiter over turbulent Jupiter

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    Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran Take a trip around Jupiter with NASA’s Juno spacecraft in a time-lapse animation created from a sequence of images taken during the probe’s last close-up flyby of the gas giant May 19. The orbiter’s JunoCam imager repeatedly scanned across the planet as the craft soared over Jupiter’s north pole, passed within around…

  • Jupiter surprises in first trove of data from NASA’s Juno mission

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    This image shows Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles The first months of observations of the solar system’s biggest planet from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have revealed huge swirling polar cyclones, previously-undetected structures and motions beneath Jupiter’s distinctive clouds,…

  • Juno spacecraft makes another pass by Jupiter

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    This image of cyclones near Jupiter’s north pole was captured by the JunoCam imager during Friday’s flyby. Credit: NASA/SWRI/MSSS Making its fifth science pass close to Jupiter’s turbulent cloud tops, NASA’s Juno spacecraft sailed by the solar system’s king planet Friday to collect another treasure trove of data on the giant world’s atmosphere, internal structure,…

  • Juno orbiter races by Jupiter on fourth science pass

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    This enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter seems to reveal a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms. The JunoCam imager acquired this image during Juno’s flyby Feb. 2 from an altitude of about 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers). Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko enhanced the color to bring out the rich detail in the storm and…

  • Juno beams back dramatic new pictures of Jupiter

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION The JunoCam instrument obtained this view on Aug. 27, about two hours before closest approach, when the spacecraft was 120,000 miles (195,000 kilometers) away from the giant planet (i.e., for Jupiter’s center). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS NASA’s Juno spacecraft, making its first scientific run over Jupiter’s poles Aug. 27, captured…

  • Researchers eager for Juno’s first chance for Jupiter science

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    Animation of Juno 14-day Orbits Starting in late 2016. Juno is currently in an even larger 53-day orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Juno spacecraft fine-tuned its orbit around Jupiter this week, helping steer the spinning space probe on a course to dip beneath the giant planet’s radiation belts in late August for the first time with…