{"id":14581,"date":"2017-05-30T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T12:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ride-with-nasas-juno-orbiter-over-turbulent-jupiter\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T12:57:16","slug":"ride-with-nasas-juno-orbiter-over-turbulent-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ride-with-nasas-juno-orbiter-over-turbulent-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ride with NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter over turbulent Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EGpYlswczC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Credit:&nbsp;NASA\/SwRI\/MSSS\/Gerald Eichst\u00e4dt\/Se\u00e1n Doran<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Take a trip around Jupiter with NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft in a time-lapse animation created from a sequence of images taken during the probe\u2019s last close-up flyby of the gas giant May 19.<\/p>\n<p>The orbiter\u2019s JunoCam imager repeatedly scanned across the planet as the craft soared over Jupiter\u2019s north pole, passed within around 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) from its turbulent cloud tops, then sailed back into deep space over the south pole.<\/p>\n<p>Juno is in an egg-shaped elliptical orbit that takes it around Jupiter once every 53 days, venturing several million miles from the planet before swinging back in for high-speed, close-up encounters less than 3,000 miles (5,000 kilometers) above its atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The May 19 flyby was Juno\u2019s seventh passage near Jupiter, including the spacecraft\u2019s arrival maneuver last July, and the fifth time it has made the approach with its scientific instruments close-up.<\/p>\n<p>Officials post raw data from JunoCam on the mission\u2019s website for space enthusiasts, artists and imaging experts not affiliated with the Juno team to analyze and render with their own work.<\/p>\n<p>The animation posted above was created by&nbsp;Gerald Eichst\u00e4dt, a space enthusiast from Germany, and&nbsp;Se\u00e1n Doran in London.<\/p>\n<p>Doran said the animation, which runs more than a minute, uses 31 JunoCam images projected onto about 3,000 frames.<\/p>\n<p>JunoCam\u2019s raw images are available at&nbsp;www.missionjuno.swri.edu\/junocam&nbsp;for the public to peruse and process into image products.<\/p>\n<p>Juno\u2019s other instruments are studying Jupiter\u2019s internal structure, atmosphere and magnetic field, aiming to sort out the planet\u2019s mysterious past and origin.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Learn more about Juno\u2019s discoveries.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit:&nbsp;NASA\/SwRI\/MSSS\/Gerald Eichst\u00e4dt\/Se\u00e1n Doran Take a trip around Jupiter with NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft in a time-lapse animation created from a sequence of images taken during the probe\u2019s last close-up flyby of the gas giant May 19. The orbiter\u2019s JunoCam imager repeatedly scanned across the planet as the craft soared over Jupiter\u2019s north pole, passed within around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1929,2522,1606,3247,3299,1561,2612],"class_list":["post-14581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-juno","tag-junocam","tag-jupiter","tag-malin-space-science-systems","tag-perijove-6","tag-planetary-science","tag-swri"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}