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This view of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere from NASA's Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet's southern jet streams. Citizen scientist Tanya Oleksuik created this color-enhanced image using data from the JunoCam camera. The original image was taken on Dec. 30, 2020.
Credits: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Image processing by Tanya Oleksuik CC NC SA
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 3 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 28, to discuss the latest results from the agencys Juno spacecraft. The science team will reveal new findings that provide the first 3D look at how the planets roiling atmosphere operates underneath the top layers of clouds, and how these revelations offer insight into the atmospheres of giant planets elsewhere in the universe.
The event will take place from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which manages the Juno mission. Itwill be livestreamed onNASA Television, theNASA app, the agencyswebsite,NASA YouTubeandTwitter.
Briefing participants include:
- Lucas Paganini, Juno program scientist, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
- Marzia Parisi, Juno scientist, JPL
- Keren Duer, Juno scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
- Leigh Fletcher, Juno participating scientist, University of Leicester, England
- Alessandro Mura, Juno co-investigator, Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome
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