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NASA's Juno probe sends back new images of Jupiter

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GK86

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Juno completed the fifth such maneuver on March 27, recording a fresh batch of images and streaming that raw data back to Earth - and now amateur astronomers are beginning to turn the gray, unprocessed photos into brilliant full-color images.

Here are a handful of our favorite shots from the fifth orbit, plus a few other images from previous flybys that space fans have recently uploaded to Juno's website.

This new image, processed by amateur astronomer Roman Tkachenko, shows Jupiter's north pole in all its stormy glory:

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Another person processed the same raw image to show more green-coloured details:

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And here's a close-up of Jupiter's swirling cloud tops:

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This shot, put together by Gervasio Robles, merges three Juno flyby images to show Jupiter's elusive south pole in full view:

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BizzyBum

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Jupiter's a pretty cool planet, without it we'd probably be dead a long time ago from asteroid impacts.
 

Seiniyta

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It's hard to imagine a place so large and yet entirely devoid of life (as far as we know). And that being the case for possibly trillions upon trillions of other planets swirling around their sun with only the occasional observer from far, far away briefly stopping, cataloging the solar system and it's planets before moving on.
 

SolVanderlyn

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Jupiter is the coolest planet. I wonder if we'll see below the surface in our lifetime.

Despite how hard it is to create these conditions here on Earth, Jupiter is so extremely massive that it probably has an entire ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen deep underneath its cloudy exterior. Incredibly, if scientists are right, it would be the largest ocean in our solar system.

An entire ocean of something we can barely produce here on Earth! Turns out pretty crazy things happen when something is surrounded by the weight of 130,000 cars in every direction!
Show me this.
 

BizzyBum

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Amazing. Still blows me away that we can get images like this that are taken so far away.

I just wish space travel was more common. Born too soon yadda yadda.

Playing Mass Effect: Andromeda (disappointing) but it would be awesome to be apart of something like that. Maybe not going to another galaxy, but just have the technology to explore and survey other solar systems in the Milky Way, charting golden worlds and creating colonies for human expansion.
 

Madness

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Amazing....look how much the flyby of Pluto changed our view of the planet. It was a low bitrate ball and now we have clear photos that even show craters. Imagine if instead of $54 billion to an already bloated US military, we increased NASA's budget by just $5 billion.
 
How come no space has clouds like this?
That will actually move dynamically

Half pun intended but they look so out of this World
 

Chronoja

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Then we nuke Jupiter....if thats even possible.

Jupiter has shrugged off worse than anything we could ever throw at it


The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet impact

"Over the next six days, 21 distinct impacts were observed, with the largest coming on July 18 at 07:33 UTC when fragment G struck Jupiter. This impact created a giant dark spot over 12,000 km across, and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6,000,000 megatons of TNT (600 times the world's nuclear arsenal)"
 
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