NASA probe’s latest images of Jupiter will make you feel like you’re blitzed on drugs
NASA’S Juno spacecraft has sent back a mind-meltingly weird image of the swirling clouds over the gas giant — taken from just 8,000 miles up.
It looks like the inside of a lava lamp — and was taken by the tiny armored probe, which is flying closer to the giant planet than any previous spacecraft, metro.co.uk wrote.
The Juno probe took five years to make the 1.7 billion mile journey to the solar system’s largest planet — and is now gathering data on the mysterious gas giant.
Juno is studying the planet’s composition, gravity, magnetic field, and the source of its raging 384mph winds.
Jupiter completely fills the image, with only a hint of the terminator (where daylight fades to night) in the upper right corner, and no visible limb (the curved edge of the planet).
The spatial scale in this image is 5.8 miles/ pixel.
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image using data from the Junocam imager.