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Jupiter and the Galilean Moons
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JUICE
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Rings That Aren’t Saturn’s
These belong to Jupiter, not Saturn. The ring system of Jupiter was imaged by the Galileo spacecraft in 1996. This image of the west ansa (the edge of a ring system) of Jupiter’s main ring has a resolution of 24 km per pixel. Plotting the brightness of ring from the inner-most edge of the image to the outer-most through the thickest part of the ring, shows the “dips” in brightness caused by perturbations from satellites. Two small satellites, Adrastea and Metis, which are not seen in this image, orbit through the outer portion of the ansa much like the small moons that shepherd Saturn’s rings.
BTW, all four of the gas giant planets in the Solar System have rings.
Image Credit: NASA
Io in IR
The Juno spacecraft took this infrared image of the volcanic surface of Jupiter’s moon Io as it flew by at a distance of was about 580,000 km in July, 2022. Brighter spots indicate higher temperatures on the moon’s surface. Juno is scheduled make another pass by Io today.
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Ganymede’s Shadow
During a close pass by Jupiter last February, the Juno spacecraft caught Ganymede’s shadow on the planet. The spacecraft was about 71,000 km above the cloud tops, only 6 to 7 % the distance between Jupiter and Ganymede.
An observer inside the oval shadow on Jupiter’s cloud tops would see a total eclipse of the Sun. Jupiter has four large moons (Ganymede, Io, Callisto, and Europa) that often pass between Jupiter and the Sun, so the moon shadows are often fall on the planet.
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Data: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS
Image processing: Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY
Europa Was Ready For Its Closeup
This image taken by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit during the spacecraft’s 29 September, 2022, flyby of Jupiter’s moon Europa show surface never seen before.Image Credits: NASA / JPL / SwRI
Volcanic Ice
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system,with hundreds of erupting volcanoes blasting lava up to 400 km high. While the New Horizons spacecraft was flying by Jupiter for a gravity assist on its way to Pluto, it took these pictures of an eruption on Io.
Image Credit: NASA
Another Picture of the Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot
This one was taken by Voyager 1 during its flyby in 1979.
Image Credit: NASA
When a Comet Hit Jupiter
Hubble witnessed the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter in 1994. This is a composite photo assembled from separate images of Jupiter and the comet. The comet had broken up into at least 21 separate fragments. When fragment G struck Jupiter, the impact created a giant dark spot roughly the same diameter as the Earth and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6,000,000 megatons of TNT (600X the Earth’s entire nuclear arsenal).
SMOD and then some.
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Jupiter in Infrared
This false color view from the JWST’s NIRCam instrument’s 2.12 micron filter shows the distinct bands that encircle Jupiter and the planet’s Great Red Spot. The iconic spot appears white in this image because of the way the infrared image was processed. The moon Europa is visible on the left, and its shadow can be seen to the left of the Great Red Spot.
Image Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA/ STScI
A Giant Black Spot
We’re used to seeing Jupiter with its Giant Red Spot, but that storm was out of view when the Juno spacecraft caught the shadow of the moon Ganymede on the planet’s cloud tops.
Image Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS;
Processing & License: Thomas Thomopoulos, CC BY 4.0
The JUICE Mission Flight Plan
JUICE is ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. The mission is schedule to launch in 2023.
Video Credit: ESA
The Winds in the Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot
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Io, Io, It’s Off to Pluto We Go!
A plume rises from a volcano over Jupiter’s moon Io in this image taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. The volcano Tvashtar is marked by the bright glow at the moon’s edge, beyond the day/night shadow line. The shadow of Io cuts across the plume itself. The image was recorded when the spacecraft was 2.3 million km from Io during a slingshot maneuver around Jupiter which provided a boost in the New Horizons‘ velocity for the spacecraft’s encounter Pluto in 2015 and the Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth in 2019.
Image Credit: NASA
The Red Spot
Yep. It’s another picture of Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot. It was taken over 40 years ago by Voyager 1 as it flew by on its way to Saturn and beyond.
Image Credit: NASA
The Rotation of the Outer Planets
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope were used to create these animations of the rotation of the outer planets as seen from Earth.
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Listening to Ganymede
This animation provides auditory and visual presentations of data collected by the Juno spacecraft’s Waves instrument during a flyby of the Jovian moon Ganymede. The animation is shorter than the duration of the flyby because the Waves data is edited onboard to reduce telemetry requirements.
The abrupt change to higher frequencies around the midpoint of the recording occurs as the spacecraft moves from one region of Ganymede’s magnetosphere to another. The actual frequency range of the data is from 10 to 50 kHz. The animation audio has been shifted to a lower range audible to human ears.
Video Credit: NASA
The Outer Planets
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Callisto
Callisto is the one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter, the second largest. Its surface is old, showing the highest coverage by impact craters of any large body in the Solar System, but it has no volcanoes or large mountains. Callisto’s surface is one large ice-field, littered with cracksand craters from billions of years of collisions. This picture was taken in 2001 by the Galileo spacecraft.
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Jupiter Rotates
This video was captured over five nights earlier this month by a mid-sized telescope on an apartment balcony in Paris, France.
Video Credit: Credit & Copyright: JL Dauvergne
Music: Benoit Reeves
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Water Vapor on Europa
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Planning a Grand Tour
I made a very minor contribution to one of the instruments on Lucy. This is a long term mission. I’ll be 76 when the the spacecraft makes its main belt flyby, almost 81 when it makes the last flyby in the Greek camp of Trojan asteroids, and 85 when it flies through the Trojan camp.
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Hubble Looks at Jupiter’s Red Spot
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Lucy and the Lagrange Points
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