Jupiter in the recent photos from NASA. Photo

A collection of unique images.

In 2011 NASA launched interplanetary station “Juno” for the exploration of Jupiter. Recently the spacecraft for the eighth time, made a flyby of the planet and transmitted to Earth pictures are taken. Unique photos NASA posted on the Internet in free access.

The spacecraft “Juno” was launched on 5 August 2011 from Cape Canaveral (Florida, USA). The orbit of the planet Jupiter, he arrived on 4 July 2016, breaking 2.8 billion km away. the Main objective of the mission is to study the gravitational and magnetic fields of Jupiter. The latest pictures were sent to Earth on 31 October 2017 and become a valuable material for scientific study.

Camera Juno makes a flyby around Jupiter.

Project Manager “Juno” ed Hurst assures that the unit functions properly and regularly sends the collected information to the scientists. The spacecraft runs on solar batteries, it is planned to 37 revs, it was assumed that each of them will take about 14 earth days. In practice it turned out differently: due to failures in the operation of some valves in one of the compartments of the propulsion system, the apparatus makes a movement in an orbit, circling around Jupiter, over 53,5 earth days. At maximum zoom to Jupiter made photographs, measurements of thermal radiation of the planet.

North pole of Jupiter.

Number of photographs sent to Earth is strictly limited. At a time can be received no more than 40 MB of data, that is, until thousands of pictures. Scientists predict that soon enough the camera will fail because of the destructive effects of radiation, which especially increases the value of obtained images of Jupiter. The first images were received on 13 July 2016, the destruction of the apparatus after the completion of the mission is planned in February 2018.

The South pole of Jupiter.

Gas storm. The Planet Jupiter.

Gas storm. The Planet Jupiter.

Gas storm. The Planet Jupiter.

Vortex storm patterns. The Northern hemisphere of Jupiter.

Photo of Jupiter taken by NASA spacecraft.

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