NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sent Back Some Spectacular Shots Of Jupiter - VIDEO

  09 January 2018    Read: 930
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sent Back Some Spectacular Shots Of Jupiter - VIDEO
After orbiting Jupiter for a little more than a year and a half, NASA’s Juno spacecraft recently finished its 10th trip around the massive planet. Now the space agency is sharing some of the photos Juno snapped that were edited by citizen scientists, including this close-up shot of Jupiter’s surface, Huffingtonpost reports:


The image was taken on Dec. 16, 2017 from nearly 8,300 miles above Jupiter’s clouds, and processed, or edited, by Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran. NASA routinely releases batches of photos taken by the Juno probe for the public to process and even asks for input about what the spacecraft should next capture.

“Jupiter completely fills the image, with only a hint of the terminator (where daylight fades to night) in the upper right corner, and no visible limb (the curved edge of the planet),” NASA wrote about the above shot.

Eichstädt and Doran released several other Juno probe images that they edited last month:





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