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Artist’s illustration of Juno Orbiting Jupiter
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The Juno spacecraft recently
delivered a new batch of data, and the images it included are even more spectacular
than the batch of data. Juno probe was launched by NASA toward Jupiter in
August 2011. Juno probe arrived at its destination in July 2016. Every 53.5
days since its arrival, Juno probe has made an orbital maneuver called a
perijove.
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Artist’s illustration of
Juno Orbiting Jupiter
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During a perijove, the spacecraft
plunges over the north pole of Jupiter, screams past the Jovian cloud at the
speed of 130,000 mph, and exits at the South Pole. This extremely elliptical hoop
helps defend the spacecraft's electronics from Jupiter's great radiation fields
while also permitting it to record extraordinary observations.
Artist’s illustration of Juno Orbiting Jupiter
NASA’s
$1-billion mission magnificently performed its 13th perijove on May 24.
Graphic artist Seán Doran
and NASA’s software engineer Kevin M. Gill have since handled the raw image
files into colorful works.
Below are some of the most breathtaking
pictures from Juno's newest trip around Jupiter.
