{"id":19092,"date":"2017-01-25T17:05:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T09:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/jumping-jupiter-what-a-view-from-juno\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T17:05:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T09:05:17","slug":"jumping-jupiter-what-a-view-from-juno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/jumping-jupiter-what-a-view-from-juno\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping Jupiter! What a view from Juno!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_306059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306059\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-306059\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/160125-juno-jupiter-630x1248.jpg\" alt=\"Juno view of Jupiter\" width=\"630\" height=\"1248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/160125-juno-jupiter-630x1248.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/160125-juno-jupiter-768x1521.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/160125-juno-jupiter-626x1240.jpg 626w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/160125-juno-jupiter.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-306059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The JunoCam imager on NASA\u2019s Juno probe&nbsp;snapped this shot of Jupiter\u2019s northern latitudes on Dec. 11, 2016, as the orbiter&nbsp;performed a close flyby. The spacecraft was 10,300 miles above Jupiter\u2019s cloud tops. (NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS Photo \/ Gerald Eichstaedt \/ John Rogers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you need an interplanetary pick-me-up, this picture of Jupiter from NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter could be just the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The picture was captured by the probe\u2019s JunoCam imager during a close flyby on Dec. 11. At lower left, you can see a giant storm known as the Little Red Spot&nbsp;(a.k.a. NN-LRS-1). Here\u2019s what NASA said about the spot in today\u2019s image advisory:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis storm is the third largest anticyclonic reddish oval on the planet, which Earth-based observers have tracked for the last 23 years. An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon with large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure. They rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>JunoCam is a noteworthy instrument&nbsp;in that its primary purpose is to provide public outreach rather than scientific data. Anyone can propose targets for the camera, and vote for which targets are selected. The resulting raw imagery is made available via the JunoCam website for members of the public to peruse and process as they see fit.<\/p>\n<p>This image was processed by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstaedt and John Rogers. Feel free to feast your eyes on more pictures from the December flyby in JunoCam\u2019s gallery.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Juno: Mission to Jupiter 360 Video (Narrated)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r5SuUY7dF1w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Voting just ended for the next flyby, and the top choice is the second largest anticyclone on Jupiter,&nbsp;known as Oval BA or Red Spot Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The primary science objectives for Juno\u2019s $1.1 billion mission are to study Jupiter\u2019s magnetic and gravitational fields, and to determine its interior composition. Juno is due to keep swinging around the planet for the next year, and when it\u2019s done, the probe will be sent down to its doom amid Jupiter\u2019s tumultuous cloud tops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JunoCam imager on NASA\u2019s Juno probe&nbsp;snapped this shot of Jupiter\u2019s northern latitudes on Dec. 11, 2016, as the orbiter&nbsp;performed a close flyby. The spacecraft was 10,300 miles above Jupiter\u2019s cloud tops. (NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS Photo \/ Gerald Eichstaedt \/ John Rogers) If you need an interplanetary pick-me-up, this picture of [&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":[5098,1606],"class_list":["post-19092","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\/19092"}],"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=19092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}