Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Fri Dec 14 2018 11:38:34 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 December 14 [2] Swimming on Jupiter Image Credit: NASA [3] , JPL-Caltech [4] , SwRI [5] , MSSS [6] ; Processing: Brian Swift, Sean Doran [7] Explanation: On October 29, the Juno spacecraft once again dove near the turbulent Jovian cloud tops. Its 16th orbital closest approach or perijove passage [8] , brought Juno within 3,500 kilometers of the Solar System's largest planetary atmosphere. These frames, recorded by JunoCam [9] while the spacecraft cruised 20 - 50 thousand kilometers above the planet's middle southern latitudes, seem to follow a swirling cloud shaped remarkably like a dolphin. Swimming along Jupiter's darker [10] South South Temperate Belt, this dolphin is itself planet-sized though, some thousands of kilometers across. Juno's next perijove [11] passage will be December 21. Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [12] | Archive [13] | Submissions [14] | Index [15] | Search [16] | Calendar [17] | RSS [18] | Education [19] | About APOD [20] | Discuss [21] | > [22] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [23] (MTU [24] ) & Jerry Bonnell [25] (UMCP [26] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [27] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [28] A service of: ASD [29] at NASA [30] / GSFC [31] & Michigan Tech. U. [32] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1812/2207_pia22694_960.gif [3] https://www.nasa.gov/ [4] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ [5] http://www.swri.org/ [6] http://www.msss.com/ [7] https://twitter.com/_TheSeaning [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGW2JZrMnY [9] https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/ dolphin_in_the_Jovian_clouds [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Atmosphere_of_Jupiter#Specific_bands [11] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/ nasas-juno-mission-halfway-to-jupiter-science [12] ap181213.html [13] archivepix.html [14] lib/apsubmit2015.html [15] lib/aptree.html [16] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [17] calendar/allyears.html [18] /apod.rss [19] lib/edlinks.html [20] lib/about_apod.html [21] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=181214 [22] ap181215.html [23] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [24] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [25] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [26] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [27] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [28] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [29] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [30] https://www.nasa.gov/ [31] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [32] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A40 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .