Citizen scientist David Englund created this avant-garde Jovian artwork using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft.
The unique interpretation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot was done in a style that pays tribute to French Impressionist painter Claude Monet.
The original image was taken on July 10, 2017 at 7:12 p.m. PDT (10:12 p.m. EDT), as the Juno spacecraft performed its 7th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was 10,274 miles (16,535 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet, at a latitude of -36.9 degrees.
JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.
More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu .
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.
Name | Value | Additional Values |
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Target | Jupiter | |
System | Jupiter | |
Target Type | Planet | |
Mission | Juno | |
Instrument Host | Juno | |
Host Type | Orbiter | |
Instrument | JunoCam | |
Detector | ||
Extra Keywords | Artwork, Atmosphere, Color, Storm, Visual | |
Acquisition Date | ||
Release Date | 2017-08-30 | |
Date in Caption | 2017-07-10 | |
Image Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/David Englund | |
Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21779 | |
Identifier | PIA21779 |