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Just ask NASA, who shared Thursday a 3D infrared video of the North Pole of the planet in honor of the National Pepperoni Pizza Day.
"Is this delivery or dynamo? As it is #National PepperoniPizzaDay, this infrared tour of Jupiter's North Pole since @NASAJuno makes us dream of pizza," tweeted NASA.
The video, which shows the many cyclones and anticyclones that cross the post, is obviously like an appetizing slice of pepperoni pizza.
The video also shows the first detailed view of a dynamo, the motor that powers the magnetic field of planets beyond the Earth.
Scientists built this video earlier this year from data collected by Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) of the Juno mission. The images were obtained from the fourth passage of the space probe on Jupiter.
According to NASA, yellow (cheese) represents warmer (or deeper in the atmosphere of Jupiter) and red (pepperoni) areas are cooler (or higher in Jupiter's atmosphere). ).
Scientists are kneading (are they getting?) Such data to better understand the forces at work in the planet, the most important of the solar system.
"Before Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," said Alberto Adriani, Juno co-researcher and senior scientist at the National Institute of Astrophysics and Planetology.
"Now that Juno is flying over the poles very closely, he is able to collect infrared images of Jupiter's polar weather conditions and massive cyclones, with unprecedented spatial resolution."
Juno was launched in August 2011 and entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016. NASA plans to continue the mission until July 2021.
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