Don’t you just love those subtle colors? You’d almost think it’s a greyscale image and then you notice.
I can hardly wait until the new Jupiter probe (which just slingshotted past Earth, wish I could remember its name) gets there.
eidolonsays
Just love the image and even better, you can enlarge sections. The polar hexagon is something especially neat. Here’s some further info on this feature:
Don’t you just love those subtle colors? You’d almost think it’s a greyscale image and then you notice.
I can hardly wait until the new Jupiter probe (which just slingshotted past Earth, wish I could remember its name) gets there.
Just love the image and even better, you can enlarge sections. The polar hexagon is something especially neat. Here’s some further info on this feature:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2010/2471.html
Enjoy
@ 1. Trebuchet :
Juno. See :
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/#.UmNHQ3BHKTU
its now past the halfway point and insertion into Jovian orbit is due July 5th 2016.
Nine hundred and eighty eight days, twenty hours twenty-three minutes and fifty five seconds to go according to the mission clock.
Oh & guess what NASA’s image of the day (via their front page) is for today!
On the enlarged image look for the shepherd moons in & outside the thin outer ring @ about 1 & 2 “o’clock”.
I tip my hat to the Hatellite of Sol.
Can anyone identify the moon outside the rings @ 10 o’clock?
Spectacular image!
Also a wonderful image of Saturns bizarre hexagon on its norther pole.
@3 and 4: Thanks! I was looking for shepherd moons but every time I’d think I found one it turned out to be a speck on the screen.
Well, that’s going on one of my desktops.