Jupiter - Full of surprises

[Saint in Paradise]

For the last year and a half, the NASA spacecraft Juno has been circling Jupiter and collecting reams of data. Juno spends most of its time a good distance

away from Jupiter, safe from the worst of the planet’s intense radiation belts. But once every orbit, the spacecraft comes swooping toward Jupiter and directs

its instruments—protected by 400 pounds of titanium—toward the perpetually stormy clouds that cover its surface. Then it zooms back out.

 

One of those instruments, a camera called JunoCam, has produced dozens of mesmerizing photographs of Jupiter in extraordinary detail. The planet’s clouds,

with their intricate eddies and swirls, look like something out of Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/jupiter-juno-solar-system/555053/

[benjii]

Bloody good planet, that.

[trousers]

Bloody good planet, that.

 

I prefer Uranus

[Jimmy_D]

I was there to watch the rocket launch that sent Juno on its way.

 

Bloody awesome.

[hans gruber]

I was there to watch the rocket launch that sent Juno on its way.

 

Bloody awesome.

 

Those pics look amazing.....

 

Out of curiosity @jimmy_d , was that from cape Canaveral? What a treat that would have been......

[Jimmy_D]

Those pics look amazing.....

 

Out of curiosity @jimmy_d , was that from cape Canaveral? What a treat that would have been......

 

Yep!

 

Was lucky enough that it happened to coincide with a family holiday that we were out there during a rocket launch, but obviously we jumped at the chance to go and watch it go up.

 

The experience of feeling the sound of it through your whole body as opposed to just hearing it on a video.... it really is something else.