The dazzling new images of this turbulent ball of gas were captured on August 27th, as Juno executed the first of 36 orbital flybys that brought it just 2,500 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops. It took a day and a half for the data to be downloaded, and it’s still being analyzed and interpreted by the Juno mission team. The latest image releases can be found here.
…Juno’s first flyby also captured the fiery beauty of Jupiter’s southern lights, which are barely visible from Earth, along with some auroral radio emissions which are straight nightmare fuel pitched up:
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
From: Jupiter Is ‘Hardly Recognizable’ In Juno’s Latest Images
