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Juno's mission to giant Jupiter splits in two and reveals new images of cyclones at the poles of the planet. Orbiting the planet every 53 days, the Juno spacecraft carries out a pole-to-pole scientific study.
Their sensors measure the composition of the planet to decipher the formation of the greatest world of our solar system.
The mapping of magnetic and gravitational fields must also reveal the structure of Jupiter.
But the images of JunoCam, a camera installed to record images that can be shared with the public, already bring us surprising revelations. Nents.
Candice Hansen, of the Arizona Institute of Planetary Science, who leads the project, presented some at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union in Washington DC.
"What we did not expect, was that we would see these organized cyclone polygons, storms twice as big as the state of Texas, we think" wow, spectacular ".
And after 16 overflights, these formations are still there.
"Juno's goal is to study the interior of Jupiter's structure and understand how it expresses itself at the top of the clouds.This is the kind of relationship that we are trying to establish, but we are not there yet. "
Project researcher Jack Connerney said the second part of the mission would give even more details on "what makes Juno work".
The dynamics of the surface can reveal the deep structure of Jupiter – Photo: NASA / SWRI / MSSS / GERALD EICHSTADT / SEAN DORAN
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