NASA gives Jupiter the Van Gogh treatment with a beautiful new image

Although originally planned to fall on Jupiter this month, Juno, NASA's Jovian explorer, has received a three-year extension to bring together all the scientific measures planned by NASA, NASA announced earlier this month.

If it continues to produce images like that, by showcasing Jupiter's twisted and stormy face, I really hope that they will never crush it.

The photo was taken on May 23 as Juno flew over the planet for the 13th time, just 9,600 miles from its "surface", the tangle of tumultuous clouds that mark its exterior. The bright white hues represent clouds that are probably made up of a mixture of ammonia and water, while the darker blue-green spirals represent the material of the 'deeper' clouds in the atmosphere of Jupiter ".

The image was colored by two citizen scientists, Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran, to produce the image above. The rippling disorder of thunderstorms marks Jupiter's face as a stunning oil painting, a starry night of Jovian with puffy whites that wrap one over the other, like the folds of a human brain.

NASA draws attention to the "brilliant oval" in the lower part of the image, explaining how JunoCam – the imager on the spacecraft – reveals "a structure at the bottom of the picture. fine scale in this weather system, including additional structures in the interior ".

This is not the first time that the threat of Jupiter has been captured and colorized, but this Earth-like image came back in March, shows a side of the gaseous giant that is not just swirling clouds and red spots.

All Juno images taken with JunoCam Imager can be admired and processed on the Juno Mission Home page.