Welcome to Discussion
Jupiter
has a dynamic atmosphere where winds in the belts (brown) and zones (white) go
in opposite directions. Storms develop and evolve, and other atmospheric
features come and go. An
imaging team, the scientists that operate the cameras on NASA missions, always
begins with a discussion phase that covers what we know and what we would like
to learn. You are a member of our
JunoCam virtual imaging team. This
discussion page is a place for general thoughts about Jupiter and your questions
and ideas.
Campaigns
Campaigns are topics for discussion, and may become candidates for targeting during Perijove passes.
Cylindrical Map
We use images from amateur astronomers (uploaded on the Planning page) to create a new cylindrical map every 14 days. This is the latest one! We have identified long-lived storms as Points of Interest (POI’S) and invite you to share your thoughts about them.
map : 2020-10-21 UT
Cylindrical map generated from data submitted via the JunoCam Planning section.
Points of Interest
POI suggestion has been disabled due to the orientation of Juno, Jupiter, and the Sun. POI based discussion of existing POIs is still open.
General Comments
331 Comments
Would love to have an explanation of planning and work that went into the planning and acquisition of perijove 27 image 40 where Io is captured in partial occultation by Jupiter.
We got amazingly lucky! The timing of this image was not deliberate...
Hello! I am new to this so, can you explain me?
Hello everyone! This is my first comment/post on here, so please bear with me as my ADD can get the better part of my thoughts at times. It was recommended to me to post here after seeing results from a fluid dynamics project I am working on and share pictures of these observations.
Quick backstory of why I am here: I have been performing some random fluid experiments using a "cobbled together" rheoscopic fluid in bottles with the intent of monitoring convection and rotation to find evidence demonstrating proof-of-concept of an idea I have– to share with those who study severe weather/mesocyclones. The point is to observe flow dynamics without atmospheric interference, a.k.a. condensation. One day I decided to record a little "fun" with exaggerated manipulation with the bucket I use to discard contents of some of these bottles. The video recordings were mesmerizing to watch– as the flow patterns constantly evolved and changed. A single input of rotation lasts 7-10 minutes. I have even been able to induce one specific condition- one that is seen as transverse rotating cirrus clouds observed with tropical systems and supercells.
Now to get to the point. It was noticed that quite a number of these patterns are very close to many seen in the pictures taken by Juno of Jupiter's atmosphere. Perhaps further analysis of these patterns might help with understanding storm/rotation dynamics seen on Jupiter? I'd love to upload some of this video, but I cannot seem to do so without compression/losing the fine detail that shows what is happening (any advice would be greatly appreciated). So for now, here are some screenshots from some of those videos. I have edited the hue/saturation on some to highlight different features...and so that they don't all look the same.
With that said, if this catches the attention of anyone, I will be more than happy to share everything.
https://anonymousnamelss.imgur.com/all/
Apologies for the incorrect link to the images. Here is the correct one.
https://imgur.com/user/AnonymousNamelss/posts
Proposed friction will eventually light Jupiter as a sun!