NASA Juno Mission Delivers Fascinating Photo of "The Eye of the Dragon" on Jupiter

NASA's Juno spacecraft continues to send unpublished images of Jupiter's house, which includes the one at the top of this page that shows a "dragon's eye" on its surface at a distance of about 4500 km.

The US space agency extended the mission until 2021 in June and said that this image had been taken as the spacecraft made its 16 flyby near the giant gas planet on October 29th. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one that has labeled the image as "a dragon's eye" while asking its followers what they see in the swirling clouds of Jupiter.

"A host of gorgeous, swirling clouds in Jupiter's dynamic north-temperate belt are captured in this image of NASA's Juno spacecraft," reports the space agency.

"Several clouds 'pop-up' of a bright white, as well as an anticyclonic storm, called a white oval, appear in the scene."

A dragon's eye?
What do you see in the swirling clouds of Jupiter? https://t.co/TjIOUFJ2CC
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The enhanced color photo was created by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran using the JunoCam Imager. The photos taken by the Juno spacecraft are accessible to the general public to digitize and even turn into image products via this link.

NASA's Juno mission has been studying Jupiter since 2016, as it has documented a new level of information about Jupiter in great detail since its arrival. The notable discoveries include new information about its unique atmosphere that "looks like nothing else" in our solar system, its Great Red Spot storm, its North Pole and some photos that seem to belong to a museum. art.

Other notable achievements include the first close-up of humanity on Jupiter's large red spot, claiming that the planet's atmosphere has unique features in the world, and that the storm of the Great Spot red has been declining for years. grows.

Juno was launched in 2011 with the goal of revealing Jupiter's secrets to help NASA better understand the solar system and the origins of the planet. The main purpose of the mission is to try to determine the amount of water present in the atmosphere of the planet, to measure its composition, its temperature, the structure of clouds and to map its magnetic and gravimetric fields.