<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstad used NASA's first renders
from JunoCam to create an intresting animation which shows us swirling clouds
on Jupiter&nbsp; that also resemble frosted
cupcakes. He also used some data from JunoCam’s visible-light camera onboard
the Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting the gas giant since 2016.&nbsp;</span><img src="/media/django-summernote/2022-09-23/c4cb2ab1-dd11-44b4-8e9a-7349813f368e.png" style="width: 100%; float: left;" class="note-float-left"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-size: 18px;"> Photographs
were especially taken during JunoCam’s 43rd&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">&nbsp;close Jupiter flyby at a
nominal height of 13;536.3 Km’s above the gas giant’s cloud tops. In the
890-nanometer methane absorption band, the brighter cloud tops you perceive
correspond to their higher height.&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 18px;">Jupiter frequently seems smooth and marble-like. These picture reveal that the ferocious clouds have peaks
and valleys like a rocky mountain range. </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Calibri Light&quot;, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Shadows in the upper atmosphere get the most intense
sunlight, but as it descends, more and more of it is absorbed</span>.</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> Jupiter
has 69,911 KM’s of radius and it is 11 times wider than Earth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:&quot;Calibri Light&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:
major-latin;color:#0A0A0A"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica;">According to research by Juno, some of these clouds reach
as far as 3,000 kilometers &nbsp;that means
1,900 miles into the globe, which is a greater distance than US’s northern
and&nbsp; and southern boundaries.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px;">NASA’s Juno scientists are currently working on a calibration that translates these brightness landscapes into actual models of physical cloud-top elevation models</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Helvetica; color: black;">.</span><b><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 16pt; font-family: &quot;IBM Plex Serif&quot;, serif; color: rgb(152, 152, 152);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#000000" style=""><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px;">The Juno mission provides us with an opportunity to observe Jupiter in a way which is essentially inaccessible by Earth-based telescopic observations. We can look at the same cloud features from very different angles within only a few minutes. This has opened up a new opportunity to derive 3D elevation models of Jupiter’s cloud-tops. The images of the wonderful chaotic storms on Jupiter seem to come to life, showing clouds rising at different altitudes,” said&nbsp;</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 21px; font-family: Helvetica;">Gerald Eichstädt, Citizen Scientist at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 in Granada</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21px;">.</span></b></font><span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 16pt; font-family: &quot;IBM Plex Serif&quot;, serif; color: rgb(152, 152, 152);"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18pt;"><br></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Impact;">















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