Striking new images are shedding light on the gigantic storms and turbulent atmosphere of the solar system's largest planet.
A trio of NASA instruments – the Hubble Space Telescope, the ground-based Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and the Juno spacecraft that's orbiting Jupiter – have teamed up to probe the mightiest storms in the solar system, taking place more than 500 million miles away on the giant planet.
"We want to know how Jupiter's atmosphere works," said Michael Wong, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley."This is where the teamwork of Juno, Hubble and Gemini comes into play." One recently released image from NASA shows Jupiter as a giant"jack-o'-lantern," where the warm, deep layers of Jupiter's atmosphere glow through gaps in the planet's thick cloud cover.
"It's kind of like a jack-o'-lantern," Wong said."You see bright infrared light coming from cloud-free areas, but where there are clouds, it's really dark in the infrared." That image was taken by the Gemini Observatory and is among the highest resolution images of Jupiter ever obtained from the ground.
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