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Juno makes the 15th flyby of Jupiter
A long brown oval known as the "brown barge" in the southern equatorial belt of Jupiter is captured in this enhanced color image of NASA's Juno spacecraft. (Image of NASA)
(NASA) – A long brown oval known as the "brown barge" in the southern equatorial belt of Jupiter is captured in this enhanced color image of NASA's Juno spacecraft.
Brown barges are cyclonic regions generally found in the northeastern equatorial belt of Jupiter, although they are sometimes also present in the southern equatorial belt.
They can often be difficult to detect visually because their color melts in the dark environment.
At other times, as with this image, the material of the dark belt recedes, creating a lighter colored background on which the brown barge is more visible.
Brown barges usually dissipate after the entire cloud belt undergoes upheaval and reorganization. Juno gives us the first glimpses of the detailed structure in such a barge.
This image was taken at 6:26 pm PDT on September 6, 2018 (9:26 pm EDT) as the spacecraft made its 15th flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was 7,925 kilometers from the peaks of the planet, above a southern latitude of about 22 degrees.
Citizen Citizen Kevin M. Gill created this image using data from JunoCam imager of the spacecraft. The image was rotated 90 degrees to the right of the original image.
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