This Indestructible NASA Camera Revealed Hidden Patterns on Jupiter

NASA engineers launched a camera at Jupiter’s poles for the first time and what it imaged surprised everyone.

To capture hidden regions on Jupiter, engineers had to build a nearly indestructible digital camera that could survive one of the harshest environments in the entire solar system.

The result was the closest image ever taken of the Great Red Spot, and it was captured by JunoCam, a deceptively small digital camera aboard a NASA probe.

The NASA probe along with JunoCam launched in 2011 and has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 with the goal of sharing previously unseen regions of the planet and connecting humanity with its celestial neighbor.

Find out more about the complexities of JunoCam, how it has shaken up conventional wisdom around what Jupiter looks like, and more on this episode of Focal Point.

#Jupiter #GreatRedSpot #NASAPRobe #JunoCam #Science #Space #Seeker #FocalPoint
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Read More:

JunoCam Overview
“Welcome to the JunoCam community where you can actively participate in the mission! Upload your images of Jupiter and help us decide what points of interest JunoCam will photograph.”

The awesome beauty of Jupiter captured by Juno, in 13 photos
“For the past two years, the spacecraft has been taking photos of Jupiter. Here are the best shots.”

The Closest-Ever Shot of the Great Red Spot
“The earliest observations of a massive spot on Jupiter date back to the 1660s, but historians and scientists don’t know whether people were actually looking at the Great Red Spot. The feature is large enough to be seen with Earth-based telescopes, and as technology improved, so did humanity’s image of the mysterious storm. The earliest photographs from the late 1800s and early 1990s showed a grainy, gray sphere.”

Ariana Grande Thinks Jupiter's Pretty (But Neptune's Better) and NASA Is Thrilled
“"Nothing is prettier than Jupiter," Grande wrote just after posting a spectacular photo of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft.”
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[Sengence]

I hate when they use artist renditions instead of real HD images.

[PsyMongazoid]

Call me a traditionalist but I'd rather the colours weren't exaggerated to make the image look good. I'm weird, I know, but I'd prefer to see what Jupiter actually looks like.

[rogeriorogerio]

It's nice that artists play with Photoshop to give these stunning images, but wouldn't be better to have real color accurate pictures of Jupiter instead ? More in line with sci research.

[Curas]

I had a nightmare once that I was a space tourist and the spaceship fell into Jupiter.
Fun stuff

[cjjams]

"it's as limitless as peoples imaginations" yeah you got that right lmao

[notification]

I cannot believe Jupiter would look like van goghs starry night or other paintings

[josephaether]

it's so strange to think that underneath all those clouds and liquid hydrogen, there's a glowing liquid metallic hydrogen surface of extremely bright blue light that's as hot as as the surface of a star... i so wish i could see this inner light, just a little bit, or even the atmosphere in such an extremely pressurized environment.

[minddrift]

The camera still scratches at a level 6 with deeper grooves at a level seven.

[TheExoplanetsChannel]

Everytime I see a Seeker notification, *my heart beats faster*

[haikalabbas]

The south pole looks like a Van Gogh painting, truly beautiful

[stephenbachman]

Jupiter is a bizzare planet. No soild mass but has everlasting storms.

[therakeshdas]

Year 2070: look we have got Pluto's deepest side picture.

[BlackBullPistol]

For those who seek:
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[catalinacurio]

Jupiter fascinates me, what’s truly underneath all those storms... You are my space science fix Seeker!

[elonmush]

I hate when mix up CGI and real photos. Goddammit I wanna know what I'm looking at.

[TheInselaffen]

That camera is orders of magnitude better than anything on Voyager. The idea that they would plan a mission like this without a camera is just unbelievable.

[guy]

The fact these images are shared and the beautiful pictures the public contributed through the use of filters and imaging programs is so inspiring!

[edwardmartinez]

This planet is amazing, the core spins in one direction, stops and reverses, hence the bands and their directions.

[XenoXvi]

and there are still people who believe the earth is flat

[kingdmind]

This should be done with every planet in the Solar System.