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Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with their interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe”, that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the cosmos from the present to the moments after the Big Bang. While JHU is responsible for creating the site, additional contributions were made by NASA, the European Space Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.
Jupiter and its moon are a rarely considered prospect for colonization, but potentially the ripest opportunity for it in the solar system. In this episode of the Outward Bound series we will examine the options for colonizing each of Jupiter's primary moons and even discuss ways to colonize the giant planet itself. Listen or Download the audio of this episode from Soundcloud: Cover Art by Jakub Grygier: : Visit the sub-reddit Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: Support us at:Support us at: Follow us on Tumblr: More stories at Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: Instagram - Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com /Karla Thompson - @karlaii Chad Weber - Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001
Image: Winds around Jupiter’s Great Red Spot are simulated in this JunoCam view that has been animated using a model of the winds there. The wind model, called a velocity field, was derived from data collected by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft and Earth-based telescopes. NASA’s Juno spacecraft acquired the original, static view during passage over the spot on July 10, 2017. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Justin Cowart. If you’d like to dig into the analysis of radiation data, the paper is Kollman et al., “A heavy ion and proton radiation belt inside of Jupiter’s rings,” Geophys. Res. Lett 44, 5259-5268 (abstract).
New Horizons' long-range camera LORRI monitored Jupiter's rotation as the spacecraft approached on January 9 and 10, 2007.
The 11 images in this animation were each taken an hour apart and cover one full rotation of the planet.
During the animation, first Ganymede and then Io cross the field of view, casting their shadows onto the planet.
There are a total of six of these movies planned for New Horizons' approach to Jupiter; the last of those should have been taken on Sunday,
so stay tuned to the New Horizons site for those. There are only three other sets of images planned for the next month: a handful of "Kodak moments,"
images taken primarily for their prettiness.
NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI / Animation by E. Lakdawalla
Published on Feb 8, 2017 This animation of Jupiter is made from more than 1,000 images taken by 91 amateurs from around the world between the 19th of December 2014 and the 31st of March 2015. After collecting the images, they have been remaped into cylindrical projections by Christoffer Svenske and Johan Warell. I have then color corrected, stacked and seamlessly stitched them into a total of 54 complete maps. To slow down the rapid motion, I have interpolated an image in between each pair of maps for a total of 107. The polar projections are a little special as I have made them stretch from pole to pole, not just from pole (center) to equator (outside) as traditionally represented. The reason is that I find it more interesting to be able to follow the movements of all the cloudbelts regardless of the projection. It has taken more than a year to complete this video that shows the motion of Jupiter's cloud belts and the rotation of the Great Red Spot in high resolution, all accelerated one million times! It also shows the technical skills of the world wide community of amateur planetary photographers to be able to reach this high level of details that can be tracked across the planet during 250 revolutions. Thanks to all of you for contributing to this project.
Voyager 3 from Peter Rosén on Vimeo.
In 1979, the Voyager 1 probe took a stunning series of images on its final approach to Jupiter that clearly showed the intricate movement of the cloudbelts for the first time. 35 years later, almost to the day, a group of 7 swedish amateur astronomers set out to replicate this odyssey and the historical NASA-footage but with images taken with their own ground-based telescopes. Welcome to the Voyager 3 Project.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/JHUAPL.
Meanwhile, Juno’s microwave radiometer (MWR) instrument also culled data during Juno’s passage over the Great Red Spot in July of 2017. The figure represents six channels of these data. Using the MWR, Juno can see deeper than any previous ground- or space-based observations into the clouds. It’s interesting to note that the large-scale structure of the Great Red Spot is evident as deep into the planet as the MWR can observe. 16,000 kilometers wide, the Great Red Spot is a vast crimson storm that has been monitored since 1830. It was twice Earth’s diameter when the Voyagers studied it but has since diminished in width. Image: This figure shows data from the six channels of the microwave radiometer (MWR) instrument onboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The data were collected in the mission’s sixth science orbit (referred to as “perijove 7”), during which the spacecraft passed over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. The top layer in the figure is a visible light image from the mission’s JunoCam instrument, provided for context. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI.
Mars is the place that most of our spacecraft, landers and rovers are studying, searching for any evidence that life ever existed somewhere else in the Solar System. But talk to planetary scientists, and they’re just as excited about the ocean worlds of the Solar System; the moons, asteroids, dwarf planets and Kuiper Belt objects where there could be vast oceans of liquid water under thick shells of ice. The perfect environment for life to thrive. We’ve only had tantalizing hints that these oceans are there, but NASA is building a spacecraft that will study one of these worlds in detail: the Europa Clipper. And they’re not the only ones. The European Space Agency is building their own mission, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. Our Book is out! ITunes: Audio Podcast version: RSS: Universetoday's youtube channel Sign up to my weekly email newsletter: Support us at:Support us at: Follow us on Tumblr: More stories at Follow us on Twitter: @universetoday Like us on Facebook: Instagram - Instagram - Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com /Karla Thompson - @karlaii Chad Weber - Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen2001 Music: Left Spine Down - “X-Ray” Team: Fraser Cain - @fcain / frasercain@gmail.com - @karlaii / Karla Thompson's youtube channel Chad Weber - Chad weber e-mail Chloe Cain - Instagram: @chloegwen20 References: Europa evidence for an ocean Galileo Mission Overview Europa Spacecraft Instruments Europa or Enceladus Us House Docs (pdf) chrome blocks Europa lander falls to back burner science magazine Europa lander falls to back burner the verge Europa giant ice spikes Juice Assesment study report yellow book Juice science Objectives Jupiter moon Ganymeade JUICE LAunch Contract
A view the Cassini spacecraft took during its flyby of Jupiter?s southern pole in 2000. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
Gimme a rocketship ? we want to see what those bands are made of! This is a strange view of Jupiter,
a familiar gas giant that humanity has sent several spacecraft to. This particular view, taken in 2000
and highlighted on the European Space Agency website recently, shows the southern hemisphere of the mighty planet.
The main page for Galelio Countdown(Legacy Page)
Amateur astronomers regularly analyse their own observations and many participate in studies of the atmosphere of Jupiter.
This image shows a nearly full map of Jupiter compiled by the Italian amateur astronomer,
Marco Vedovato, from observations obtained by Tiziano Olivetti in Thailand, Christopher Go in the Philippines,
and Alexei Pace in Malta. Full maps like this are only possible through the collaboration from observers around the world.
The composition of these images by other amateurs like Marco Vedovato helps scientists in their effort to characterise the
dynamic atmosphere of Jupiter. Image credit: M. Vedovato/T. Olivetti/C. Go/A. Pace.
Jupiter’s structure and composition. (Image Credit: Kelvinsong CC by S.A. 3.0)
A “family portrait” of the four Galilean satellites (Io Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) around Jupiter,
taken by the New Horizons spacecraft and released in 2007.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
Published on Oct 13, 2015 New imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is revealing details never before seen on Jupiter.
High-resolution maps and spinning globes (rendered in the 4k Ultra HD format) are the first products
to come from a program to study the solar system’s outer planets each year using Hubble.
The observations are designed to capture a broad range of features, including winds, clouds,
storms and atmospheric chemistry. These annual studies will help current and future scientists
see how such giant worlds change over time. "This video is in the public domain. It can be downloaded along with the new Jupiter globes and maps Learn more at: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/god... Like our videos? Subscribe to NASA's Goddard Shorts HD podcast: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f... Or find NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard Category Science & Technology License Standard YouTube License
The root of a dark matter hair produced from particles going through Jupiter’s core would be about 1 trillion times denser than average.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This radio image of Jupiter was captured by the VLA in New Mexico. The three colors in the picture correspond
to three different radio wavelengths: 2 cm in blue, 3 cm in gold, and 6 cm in red. Synchrotron radiation produces the pink glow around the planet.
Image: Imke de Pater, Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne).
Two images of the Great Red Spot. The lower one is a Hubble optical image, showing the Spot and the familiar swirling cloud patterns.
The upper image is a radio map of the same region, showing the movement of ammonia up to 90 km below the clouds.
Credit: Radio image by Michael H. Wong, Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne).
(Optical image by NASA, ESA, A.A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley), and G.S. Orton (JPL-Caltech) )
OUMUAMUA WAS JUST THE BEGINNING. ASTRONOMERS FIND AN INTERSTELLAR ASTEROID ORBITING RETROGRADE NEAR JUPITER.
Image: Images of 2015 BZ509 obtained at the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO) that established its retrograde co-orbital nature. The bright stars and the asteroid (circled in yellow) appear black and the sky white in this negative image. Credit: C. Veillet / Large Binocular Telescope Observatory. Namouni and Morais used computer simulations to track the errant asteroid back in time, arguing that 2015 BZ509 has moved this way since the birth of the Solar System some 4.5 billion years ago, an indication that it could not have formed there originally. The case also relies on the fact that the Sun formed in a tightly packed star cluster where movement of objects ejected by gravitational forces within their own system into orbits around other stars would not have been uncommon. Thus this rogue asteroid may well contain information about planet formation and evolution as well as telling us more about the Sun’s original siblings. So what exactly do we know about this object? 2015 BZ509 is in a resonant, co-orbital motion with Jupiter and represents the first discovery of a retrograde co-orbital asteroid with Jupiter or any other planet. Its orbital eccentricity of 0.3805 takes it inside and then outside of Jupiter’s orbit at its closest approaches (176 million kilometers). The orbital period is 11.65 years and the inclination is 163 degrees, an evidently stable orbit if a complicated one.
Illustration of Jupiter and the Galilean satellites. Credit: NASA
Artist’s impression of Jupiter’s moons, with the newly-discovered moons indicated in blue and red. Credit: Carnegie Institution of Science/Roberto Molar Candanosa
Image: This graphic shows a new radiation zone surrounding Jupiter, located just above the atmosphere near the equator, that has been discovered by NASA’s Juno mission. The new radiation zone is depicted here as a glowing blue area around the planet’s middle.
The magnetic field of Jupiter and co-rotation enforcing currents. Credit: Wikipedia Commons/Ruslik0
The Juno spacecraft will provide insights on how Jupiter's magnetic field is generated.
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Jupiter's magnetosphere - a basic view. Read more: This video is public domain and may be downloaded at: Credits: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/JPL NAIF Tom Bridgman (GST): Lead Animator Mara Johnson-Groh (Wyle Information Systems): Writer Laurence Schuler (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Project Support Ian Jones (ADNET Systems, Inc.): Project Support
Published on Jun 29, 2016 NASA is sending the Juno spacecraft to Jupiter, to peer beneath its cloudy surface
and explore the giant planet's structure and magnetic field. Juno's twin magnetometers,
built at Goddard Space Flight Center, will give scientists their first look within Jupiter
at the powerful dynamo that drives its magnetic field. In this interview, Deputy Principal Investigator
Jack Connerney discusses the Juno mission and its magnetometers.
This video is public domain and :can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at Credit: NASA/Goddard/Daniel Gallagher Music from the Killer Tracks catalog: "Beep" – Niklas Ahman "Jupiter's Eye" – Christian Telford, David Travis Edwards, Matthew St Laurent, and Robert Anthony Navarro "Original Conquest" –Laurent Dury "Through the Mist" – Andrew Britton and David Goldsmith "Lost Roads" – Gregg Lehrman
Image showing depiction of the ions of Jupiter traveling on a closed magnetic field loop, which is what creates the X-ray auroras on the planet. Credit – Yao/Dunn/ESA/NASA Auroras come in many shapes and sizes. Jupiter is well known for its spectacular complement of bright polar lights, which also have the distinction of appearing in the X-ray band. These auroras are also extreme power sources, emitting almost a gigawatt of energy in a few minutes. But what exactly causes them has been a mystery for the last 40 years. Now, a team used data from a combination of satellites to identify what is causing these powerful emissions. The answer appears to be charged ions surfing on a kind of wave.
Image of auroras on Jupiter, as seen in X-ray by Chandra, one of NASA’s X-ray telescopes, in 2007. Credit – X-ray – NASA/CXC/SwRI/R. Gladstone et al.; Optical – NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage (AURA/STScI)
Jupiter’s aurora is the biggest, brightest and most stunning in the solar system. For a long time, we assumed it was created the same way that Earth’s aurora (or Northern Lights) are created but the JUNO mission to Jupiter has shown that might not be the case... #unsolvedmystery My new book 'Space: The 10 Things You Should Know' is out now worldwide (except US & Canada) on September 5th 2019! You can pre-order it (UK only) from amazon here: News on US & Canadian publication coming soon! Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video! ------ Mauk et al. (2017) - [also I just realised I pronounced it “Μu-ak” all the way through this video when it’s clearly “Ma-uk”🤦🏻♀️ my apologies to the author] --------- Dr. Becky also presents videos on Sixty Symbols: and Deep Sky Videos: Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford. Dr Becky Smethurst Dr Becky Smethurst at Christ Church at the University of Oxford.
X-rays aren’t the only type of aurora on Jupiter thought. Here are some ultraviolet auroral images of Jupiter from the Juno Ultraviolet Spectrograph instrument. The images contain intensities from three spectral ranges, false-colored red, green and blue, providing qualitative information on precipitating electron energies (high, medium and low, respectively). Credit: NASA/SwRI/Randy Gladstone
