By | January 14, 2017 07:37am ET
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/J. Major copyright PUBLIC DOMAIN
Jupiter with Clouds
Early images of Jupiter taken by the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno probe have been made available to the public. (Juno is getting closer to Jupiter than any other probe in history). Citizen scientists have taken the raw images and processed them in various ways. Some of the images highlight certain features, while others are gorgeous works of art. J. Major, who created this image, wrote, “A tweaked version of the released image of Jupiter, enhancing some cloud detail while removing banding tones.”This slideshow was updated on Jan. 14, 2017.
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko
A Crescent Jupiter
Using data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko created this photo of a half-lit Jupiter. Tkachenko used JunoCam data to create this image.“You can also see a series of storms shaped like white ovals, known informally as the ‘string of pearls.’ Below the Great Red Spot a reddish long-lived storm known as Oval BA is visible,” NASA officials wrote in an image description.
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Credit: NASA, SwRI, MSSS & Matt Brealey copyright CC BY
Jupiter in Full View
JunoCam participant Matt Brealey wrote about this image: “An image constructed from the perijove 1 raw images, using common Visual Effects techniques, in The Foundry’s ‘Nuke’ compositing software.”
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Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko copyright CC BY
Stormy Weather
Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko provides a zoomed-in view of some of the storms on Jupiter’s south pole.
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Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/JPL-Caltech/John Rogers copyright CC BY
Jupiter landscapes
This mage provides a guide to some of the features seen on Jupiter by the JunoCam. Citizen scientist John Rogers, who created the image, writes, “In this longitude range, we cannot identify any individual far-northern features tracked from Earth. The whole region is almost filled with cyclonic turbulent regions (‘folded filamentary regions,’ FFRs), better resolved than by previous spacecraft. Novel features are: long, narrow cloud lanes in an otherwise bland zone; a cluster of cyclones (to judge from their spiral structure) immediately around the north pole. At least three are visible on the sunlit side, and the north pole itself is not illuminated. They are reddish. On Saturn, Cassini has revealed that there is a single mega cyclone precisely at each of the poles. On Jupiter, Juno’s camera now suggests that there are multiple cyclones clustered around each of the poles.”
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Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / John Rogers copyright CC BY
Jupiter Map from JunoCam
This detailed image is a collaboration between image processor Gerald Eichstädt and astronomer John Rogers. Rogers writes: “This map of Jupiter on August 27 was produced from the JunoCam images just before and after perijove-1, mainly by Gerald Eichstädt. The northern hemisphere is from inbound images from 03:45 to 13:58 (UTC at the spacecraft), and the southern hemisphere is from outbound images from Aug.27, 19:15 to Aug.28, 04:45. The map has been generated by collaboration of many amateurs using the data from NASA’s Juno team. Gerald Eichstädt processed and projected the JunoCam images and converted them into maps. Because images of this oblate planet taken from such high latitudes and phase angles had never before been used to make a map, it was difficult to achieve accurate coordinates, so I checked the longitude scale of the map by reference to amateur data: charts from the JUPOS team up to August, and a map made by Marco Vedovato from infrared images taken by Phil Miles on Aug.26-28. The latter images (and those by Anthony Wesley) were especially important for accurate alignment. Gerald and I then re-compiled the map and adjusted the colours and intensities to enhance visibility of features.” This is the version of the image with major features labelled.
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Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Alex Longo © PUBLIC DOMAIN
Hurricane on Juno
Citizen scientist Alex Longo writes: “This is an image of Jupiter’s south pole (enhanced with increased contrast) cropped to center on a large storm. It is a cyclone similar to hurricanes on Earth, likely caused by two opposing jet streams. However, this hurricane is massive – 2/3 the size of the Earth! Our home planet is included for scale.”
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Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Alex Longo copyright PUBLIC DOMAIN
Eye of the Beholder
Some people have been making art out of the scientific data, as with this image created by Alex Longo, who wrote, “By changing the color of Juno’s view of Jupiter’s south pole and cropping, I was able to make an image similar to Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ painting, showing that the universe is full of artistic and beautiful sights.”
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Credit: Username Alessio-08 copyright PUBLIC DOMAIN
Data or Modern Art
This image was made as an attempt to “highlight certain clouds” according to the citizen scientist who processed this image (username Alessio-08); the result looks like a modern art piece.
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Credit: NASA/JunoCam/SNO-80 copyright Public Domain
Purple Jupiter
This image, processed by JunoCam participant SNO-80, brings out the blue and purple wavelengths captured by JunoCam.
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Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Timmerman-61 copyright PUBLIC DOMAIN
Artful rendering
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Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Public Domain
Swirling Storms
This image, processed and uploaded by a citizen scientist who goes by AMOS-22, wrote that this image was processed in Adobe Lightroom, a commercial available photo editing software.
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Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Alex Mai copyright CC BY
Clouds to the South
A close-up view of the cloud formations on Jupiter’s south pole, by citizen scientist Alex Mai.
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Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko copyright PUBLIC DOMAIN
Cloud structures
This grayscale image makes it easier to see the structure of the clouds as seen by Juno. Citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko wrote, “Processed version of image JNCE_2016240_00C06186_V01-raw. There is only manual alignment and stitching; no automation was used.”
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Credit: jupiter, juno, junocam
Jupiter in Orange
This image, processed by citizen scientist Steve Solon (of Galaxyshots) shows Jupiter’s south pole “at minimum emission angle.”
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Credit: NASA/JunoCam/Decplace copyright PUBLIC DOMAIN
Jupiter’s Pastels
A JunoCam participant with the username Nemrut Dagi-24 processed this image and wrote: “Altered white balance and changed colours around a little and brought out detail.”
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Credit: NASA/JunoCam/K K Wicki © PUBLIC DOMAIN
Jupiter on Fire
A work of art produced by JunoCam participant Nebraska-45.
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