NASA released Friday unpublished images of Jupiter taken by the Juno probe during a close flyby near the giant gaseous planet, revealing never before seen phenomena such as auroras at the South Pole.
Juno passed the point closest to Jupiter on August 27, only 4,200 km above its atmospheric height. The probe was incorporated into the orbit of this planet in early July and has yet to make 35 flybys a short distance before falling into the atmosphere.
The high-resolution images were taken by a camera called JunoCam, an instrument that takes the ship on board.
Juno transmitted infrared images of the two polar regions under the cloud cover of the planet, said Alberto Adriani, the Institute of Astrophysics and Planetology Space in Rome, Italy.
” the first images of Jupiter’s north pole appear to be completely different from what we have seen or imagined before. the colors are bluer than in other parts of the world, there are many storms and no sign of bands of different colors normally see around Jupiter, “said the scientist Juno mission, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.
So far, this phenomenon had been observed over the north pole thanks to the Hubble space telescope. Another instrument of Juno could record sounds from Jupiter. These radio broadcasts are known since the 1950s, but had never been analyzed from so close.
“Jupiter speaks to us in a way that only gas giant planets can do,” said Bill Kurth, of the University of Iowa, who is one of the mission scientists.
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