{"id":14340,"date":"2017-05-09T14:46:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14340"},"modified":"2017-05-09T14:46:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T18:46:24","slug":"images-of-jupiter-and-the-saturn-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14340","title":{"rendered":"Images of Jupiter and the Saturn system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some great views of two gas giants in our solar system;<\/p>\n

**\u00a0Approaching Jupiter | NASA<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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This enhanced color view of Jupiter\u2019s south pole was created by citizen scientist Gabriel Fiset using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft.\u00a0 Oval storms dot the cloudscape. Approaching the pole, the organized turbulence of Jupiter\u2019s belts and zones transitions into clusters of unorganized filamentary structures, streams of air that resemble giant tangled strings.<\/p>\n

The image was taken on Dec. 11, 2016 at 9:44 a.m. PST (12:44 p.m. EST), from an altitude of about 32,400 miles (52,200 kilometers) above the planet\u2019s beautiful cloud tops.<\/p>\n

JunoCam’s raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at: www.missionjuno.swri.edu\/junocam<\/a><\/p>\n

More information about Juno is at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/juno<\/a> and http:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

**\u00a0Hail the Hexagon | NASA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saturn’s hexagonal polar jet stream is the<\/em> shining feature of almost every view of the north polar region of Saturn. The region, in shadow for the first part of the Cassini mission, now enjoys full sunlight, which enables Cassini scientists to directly image it in reflected light.<\/p>\n

Although the sunlight falling on the north pole of Saturn is enough to allow us to image and study the region, it does not provide much warmth. In addition to being low in the sky (just like summer at Earth’s poles), the sun is nearly ten times as distant from Saturn as from Earth. This results in the sunlight being only about 1 percent as intense as at our planet.<\/p>\n

This view looks toward Saturn from about 31 degrees above the ring plane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Jan. 22, 2017 using a spectral filter which preferentially admits wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 939 nanometers.<\/p>\n

The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 560,000 miles (900,000 kilometers) from Saturn. Image scale is 33 miles (54 kilometers) per pixel.<\/p>\n

The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.<\/p>\n

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit https:\/\/saturn.jpl.nasa.gov<\/a> and https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cassini<\/a>. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at\u00a0https:\/\/ciclops.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

**\u00a0Cassini: The Grand Finale: Amateur Images<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0A couple of items from postings by outsider users of NASA raw images<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Saturn Mosaic – Ian Regan<\/a><\/p>\n

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Enceladus Over Saturn’s Rings by Sergio Maria-Fagundez<\/a><\/p>\n

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