Have you, like me, been admiring the beauty of our planets through the pictures NASA blesses us with almost everyday?
It has been six years since the Juno spacecraft began its orbit around Jupiter, during which time it has been collecting incredible images and data from the massive planet. Juno is a game changer for our knowledge about the outer-part of the solar system and it is getting closer to the end!
During the last months, Juno's findings challenged our previously held beliefs about Jupiter's atmosphere, seeing unusual lightning strikes above its clouds! Who would have thought! What could have been the cause of these lightnings? And what else did Juno see during its journey? Keep watching to find out!
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In 2021, Juno began an extended mission that included flybys of Jupiter's icy inner moons Ganymede, Europa and Io. It had been over twenty years since Galileo visited these moons, and NASA is eager to learn what might be occurring underneath their frozen surfaces. Excitingly, preliminary results suggest that a lot is transpiring.
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GANYMEDE
This stunning photograph taken by JunoCam offers an almost complete look at Ganymede's surface at a resolution of 1 kilometer per pixel. Its texture is incredible - you can almost feel it when looking at the image.
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EUROPA
After completing its visit to Ganymede, Juno was given a gravity-assist on September 29, 2022 during its flyby of Europa, which allowed it to reduce its orbit to 38 days.
We are pleased to present to you an image captured from the flyby, taken from a distance of 351 kilometres.
JUPITER
The Voyager Mission's 1979 visit to Jupiter uncovered a mysterious phenomenon: bright flashes in the planet's atmosphere. Scientists initially thought these could be lightning, which indicated the presence of water in its three forms - solid, liquid and gas. With Juno's visits to Ganymede and Europa, the decades-long mystery was finally solved. Given what we know of Jupiter’s atmosphere, this would put the storms at least 45 kilometres below the visible cloud tops.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:57 Extended Mission and Icy Moons
02:08 Mission Background and Precautions
03:00 Ganymede Flyby and Discoveries
04:27 Detailed Views and Hubble Insights
06:04 Europa Flyby and Theories
08:48 Jupiter's Atmosphere and Lightning
10:29 Summary and Future Targets
12:09 Jupiter's Characteristics
18:07 Descent
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