{"id":19080,"date":"2017-02-06T19:17:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jupiter-snapshots-show-lots-of-spots\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T19:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:17:53","slug":"jupiter-snapshots-show-lots-of-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jupiter-snapshots-show-lots-of-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter snapshots show lots of spots"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photo of Jupiter\u2019s south polar region, captured by the JunoCam imager on NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter on Feb. 2, reveals an arc of white oval storms. (NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS \/ Roman Tkachenko \u00a9 CC BY)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We all know Jupiter has a Great Red Spot, but the latest pictures from NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter turn the spotlight on some nifty little white spots near the giant planet\u2019s south pole.<\/p>\n

The white oval storms may look like mere pockmarks on JunoCam\u2019s profile, but they\u2019re actually giant cyclones that are roughly as wide as the planet Mercury (3,000 miles or so).<\/p>\n

\u201cJovian Antarctica\u201d was one of the targets for Juno\u2019s fourth close flyby of Jupiter on Feb. 2. The half-shadowed view of Jupiter\u2019s disk was taken when the solar-powered probe was about 47,600 miles above the cloud tops.<\/p>\n

Juno was launched in 2011, and entered Jovian orbit last July to begin a mission that focuses on Jupiter\u2019s magnetic and gravitational fields as well as its interior composition. JunoCam was included as part of the instrument payload primarily for public outreach, and internet users get to vote on the camera\u2019s targets.<\/p>\n

The image data from Juno\u2019s close flybys are made available for professionals and amateurs alike to play with. Browse through the photo gallery for the February flyby, and get ready to vote on your favorite targets for the next flyby.<\/p>\n

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A white oval storm known as a \u201cpearl\u201d stands out in this closeup of Jupiter\u2019s clouds, captured by NASA\u2019s JunoCam imager on Feb. 2. (NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS \/ Joaquin Camarena)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photo of Jupiter\u2019s south polar region, captured by the JunoCam imager on NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter on Feb. 2, reveals an arc of white oval storms. (NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS \/ Roman Tkachenko \u00a9 CC BY) We all know Jupiter has a Great Red Spot, but the latest pictures from NASA\u2019s Juno […]<\/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":[5098,1606],"class_list":["post-19080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-juno-mission","tag-jupiter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080"}],"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=19080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}