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cosmicvastness: “ Jupiter in the Rearview Mirror In the final minutes of a recent close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a departing view of the planet’s swirling southern hemisphere. This color-enhanced image was taken at 7:13 p.m....

cosmicvastness:

Jupiter in the Rearview Mirror

In the final minutes of a recent close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a departing view of the planet’s swirling southern hemisphere.

This color-enhanced image was taken at 7:13 p.m. PDT on Sept. 6, 2018 (10:13 p.m. EDT) as the spacecraft performed its 15th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 55,600 miles (89,500 kilometers) from the planet’s cloud tops, above a southern latitude of approximately 75 degrees. 

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt

(via astrophysics-daily)

Mar 08, 2019

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