While we’re all hyped for the launch of the Perseverance rover on Mars, NASA’s Juno spacecraft provided another spectacular view of the deep jet streams of stormy Jupiter. The probe even saw a real explosion in the planet’s atmosphere.
(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS)
This view of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft encompasses several of the planet’s southern jet streams.
The vast planet looks elegant in NASA’s latest image, with only a view of the Great Red Spot visible on the horizon. With the help of a JunoCam camera, citizen scientist Tanya Oleksuik developed the image of deep jet streams.
Jupiter is the largest planet of our solar system, and like a gas giant, with amazing changes of colors, the surface will show some amazing storms. NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, and the satellite has been taking some amazing images of the distant planet during that time.
Jet currents extend much deeper than before
In the latest Juno photo, a storm hit the planet’s image called the Great Red Spot cameo eye. On the top right, it is clear, jutting out over the horizon. Scientists have been able to learn from evidence from the researcher that these large jet streams are flowing further into the planet than previously thought.
“Using data from Juno instruments, scientists found that Jupiter’s powerful atmospheric jet currents extend far deeper than before,” NASA said in a statement.
On the horizon, the storm known as the Great Red Spot is still visible, almost turned out of sight as Juno accelerated about 30 miles per second (48 kilometers per second) away from Jupiter, which is over 100,000 mph (160,900 kilometers per hour)).
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What is that obvious explosion in the Jupiter Atmosphere?
Meanwhile, an instrument led by the Southwest Research Institute studying auroras aboard Juno Spacecraft saw a miraculous light over Jupiter’s clouds last spring.
The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) team analyzed the data and concluded that a bolide, a highly visible meteoroid eruption in the upper atmosphere of the gas giant, was captured.
Dr Rohini Giles at SwRI told SciTechDaily that Jupiter gets a lot of clear explosions every year. For that reason, these explosions are not uncommon for Jupiter.
Giles clarified, however, that these explosions are so short-lived that they are considered very rare. He said that amateur astronauts in the last decade have recorded six effects on Jupiter.
UVS has been used to study the morphology, brightness and celestial properties of Jupiter auroras since Juno Jupiter arrived in 2016, as the near-surface space charity wheels every 53 days. UVS monitors a swath of the planet through a 30-second spin. Short-term scattered ultraviolet emissions outside the auroral region have rarely been identified with the UVS instrument, including a single event on April 10, 2020.
Since Juno is a recurring spacecraft, Giles said their discovery is from a brief snapshot. He said the point on the planet is observed by our instrument for just 17 milliseconds. He said they have not identified the purpose of the clear glass beyond that time.
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