See amazing new images of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Juno probe.

Jupiter is one of the most mysterious planets roaming our solar system. In addition, it is also the largest, and even with such a strange composition that it would be impossible to step on it. Today, Juno probe gives us new images of everyone’s favorite gas giantand they are impressive.

Just a few weeks ago, the same Juno probe visited Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, which Not photographed since the end of the last century. Now that we have new images from the natural satellite of said planet, it’s time to return, and he took the opportunity to capture its surface in great detail.

The Juno probe was launched in 2011. finally reached Jupiter in 2016. Since then, it has orbited the planet’s surface in a very elliptical path, passing through the polar regions every five weeks or so. It is at this time that Juno can send captured images back to Earth.

Juno gives us the opportunity to see Jupiter like never before

On November 6 of this year, the Juno probe flew over 46.^a once orbiting Jupiter. Since then, started sending pictures taken with its 2-megapixel camera to Earth via NASA’s Deep Space Network.

Mission Juno has its own website. Hence, any keen scientist can upload the images, process them and then upload the results to your social networks. Actually, this is exactly what Andrea Luck did, posting on her Twitter account Twitter video of Juno’s approach to Jupiter, created from still images.

The future of research on Jupiter and its moons

These enthusiastic scientists also played an important role in the Juno missions. It is thanks to them that seriously damaged probe images can be processed and produce the impressive results that we see all over the Internet. However, NASA and ESA was going to put an end to this practice by creating specialized scientific teams when processing images of future JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) missions.

His intellectual power and experience allowed him to create a wonderful set of images.

There are very few differences between them and what you get on the Voyager or New Horizons missions. They changed our understanding of how planetary mission teams work, and it was a very, very successful experiment.

Jonathan Lunin, planetary scientist at Cornell University and co-investigator of the Juno mission.

Europa Clipper will be the next probe heading for Jupiter’s icy moon. Once in your orbit, will be responsible for capturing high resolution images of its surfaceas well as study the composition of its atmosphere, although we will have to wait until 2024 to see its launch (and until 2027 to see its arrival).

On the other hand, in 2023 will launch the JUICE probe, although it will not arrive at its destination until 2031. His mission will be to study Europa, Ganymede and Callisto for three and a half years.