#PPOD: Let's end the week looking back at this picture of Jupiter, which was created by Kevin Gill using images captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its 23rd close flyby of Jupiter back in 2019. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @kevinmgill
Credits:
Processing: Andrea Luck CC BY
Image data: INAF/LargeBinocularTelescope Observatory/Georgia State University
IRV-band observations by SHARK-VIS@LBT [P.I. F. Pedichini]
#PPOD: The shadow is not that of Europa but a second moon (Io), which is not in this frame. Europa is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon and is tidally locked. Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) is a vast cyclonic storm system about three times the size of Earth when Voyager flew by. Since 1979, the GRS has continuously shrunk, slowly changing its shape from an oval to a circle. It is now a little over the size of the Earth only. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Kevin M. Gill
Ätna, Krakatau und Eyjafjallajökull können einpacken: Karl erzählt in der neuen Folge von der vulkanisch aktivsten Welt des Sonnensystems: von Jupiters Mond Io, dessen Vulkane alles in den Schatten stellen, was wir sonst kennen. Und gerade das macht ihn interessant:
#PPOD: A massive storm, large enough to encompass most of North America, was spotted in Jupiter’s northern latitudes by NASA's Juno spacecraft on May 12. Juno is currently in its first extended mission and recently wrapped up close flybys of the Galilean moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ @kevinmgill
TONIGHT, May 22, 2024, at 7 pm (PDT), Dr. Robert Pappalardo (NASA Jet
Propulsion Lab) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled:
“Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter’s Ocean World"
Waiting for [#JUICE ...] NASA's #Juno probe recently took images of the surface of #Europe, an icy moon of #Jupiter. And what a surprise! The #ice crust has shifted, distorted, ...
So what happened? Are these changes the result of interactions with the vast oceanic area lying beneath Europa's surface?
Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt made these images using raw data from the JunoCam instrument, applying processing techniques to enhance the clarity of the images.
Image credit:
Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Image processing by Gerald Eichstädt
Subscribe to @InterzoneMag to read my new story, SIBILANCE, a queer homage to classic #sciencefiction set in outer space. Dr Hodei is in love with two spheres: 1) A gas giant called Jupiter & 2) his deceased nonbinary lover turned SEAX drone: Amaranth (both depicted in the magnificent cover art by @carlydraws ). 🪐🚀🇵🇷🏳️🌈
#PPOD: The JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno captured this view of Jupiter’s moon Io — with the first-ever image of its south polar region — during the spacecraft’s 60th flyby of Jupiter on April 9, 2024, revealing mountains and lava lakes. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Gerald Eichstädt/Thomas Thomopoulos
Fresh out the oven, version 0.8.5 of the open source space game #OutFly!
✅ New flashlight
✅ Redesigned HUD, with #Fallout-4-like bars for health/power/O2, and #car-dashboard-like warning lights
✅ New, well-balanced cruising vehicle
✅ Implemented power drain
✅ Much improved texture for #Jupiter
Btw, see how the hat of the #pizza chef doesn't cast a shadow? Because it ain't real! Just an #AR illusion, which you can toggle with <TAB> :)
Io's south pole
Io's south pole region, photographed for the first time ever thanks to the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft.Image: Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS; Image processing: Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos (CC BY)
In infrared, Jupiter lights up the night. Recently, astronomers at the Gemini North Observatory in Hawaii, USA, created some of the best infrared photos of Jupiter ever taken from Earth’s surface, pictured. Gemini was able to produce such a clear image using a technique called lucky imaging, by taking many images and combining only the clearest ones that, by chance, were taken when Earth's atmosphere was the most calm.
A new version of the open source space game #OutFly is out! :)
✅ New settlement in a hollowed-out asteroid - can you find it?
✅ New map markers for planets/moons
✅ Added remaining 7 planets with realistic textures
✅ Planet/moon positions are now based on the player's real time
✅ New speedometer
#PPOD: View of the north polar region of Jupiter's moon Io, in approximate natural color, made from images captured with NASA's Galileo spacecraft on March 28, 1998. The background is filled with Jupiter's clouds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ Galileo Imaging Team/Jason Major
The so-called “great instability” event that sent gas giants careening through space until they settled into orbits occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. Migrating planets primarily Jupiter, it turns out, may have led to the formation of Earth’s moon. Live Science explains: https://flip.it/wWBTEy #Science#Space#Jupiter#Earth#Moon#SolarSystem
New bus stations in #OutFly, giving you free public transportation to the most scenic destinations around #Jupiter.
Just look for the signature green 3-axis cross of StarTrans Cargo Services, register your trip with the customer service agent drone, activate your spacesuit's CryoFreeze program, and eventually, you will be picked up. Hopefully.
#PPOD: Io is the volcanic moon of Jupiter and is seen here in an image taken in 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. Loki Patera is Io's largest volcanic depression at 202 kilometers in diameter and contains an active volcanic lake. Io's volcanism results from the gravitational forces being applied to the tiny moon by Jupiter on one side and the larger Galilean moons on the other. Credit: NASA/JPL/Voyager-ISS/ @andrealuck CC BY (https://www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/53668923876/ )