Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Wed Feb 06 2019 05:28:01 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. 2019 February 5 Perijove 16: Passing Jupiter Video Credit & License [2] : NASA [3] , Juno [4] , SwRI [5] , MSSS [6] , Gerald Eichstadt [7] ; Music: The Planets [8] , IV. Jupiter (Gustav Holst [9] ); USAF Heritage of America Band [10] ( via Wikipedia [11] ) Explanation: Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter again [12] . NASA [13] 's robotic spacecraft Juno [14] is continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits [15] around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 16, the sixteenth time that Juno [16] has passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. Each perijove [17] passes near a slightly different part [18] of Jupiter's cloud tops. This color-enhanced video [19] has been digitally composed from 21 JunoCam still images, resulting in a 125-fold time-lapse. The video [20] begins with Jupiter rising as Juno [21] approaches [22] from the north. As Juno reaches its closest view [23] -- from about 3,500 kilometers over Jupiter's cloud tops -- the spacecraft captures the great planet in tremendous detail. Juno [24] passes light zones and dark belt of clouds that circle the planet, as well as numerous swirling circular storms, many of which are larger than hurricanes on Earth [25] . As Juno moves away, the remarkable dolphin-shaped cloud [26] is visible. After the perijove, Jupiter [27] recedes into the distance, now displaying the unusual clouds that appear over Jupiter's south. To get desired science data [28] , Juno swoops so close to Jupiter [29] that its instruments are exposed to very high levels of radiation. Tomorrow's picture: moon tree ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [30] | Archive [31] | Submissions [32] | Index [33] | Search [34] | Calendar [35] | RSS [36] | Education [37] | About APOD [38] | Discuss [39] | > [40] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [41] (MTU [42] ) & Jerry Bonnell [43] (UMCP [44] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [45] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [46] A service of: ASD [47] at NASA [48] / GSFC [49] & Michigan Tech. U. [50] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ [3] https://www.nasa.gov/ [4] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html [5] http://www.swri.org/ [6] http://www.msss.com/ [7] http://www.planetary.org/connect/our-experts/profiles/ gerald-eichstdt.html [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Holst [10] https://www.music.af.mil/Bands/US-Air-Force-Heritage-of-America-Band/ [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holst_The_Planets_Jupiter.ogg [12] ap180226.html [13] https://www.nasa.gov/ [14] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_orbit [16] https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/spacecraft/ [17] https://www.thefreedictionary.com/perijove [18] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7153 [19] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGW2JZrMnY [20] https://youtu.be/c4TU3arrZR8 [21] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft) [22] ap170523.html [23] https://media.giphy.com/media/1050MHNmEr19C0/giphy.gif [24] https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/ [25] ap171127.html [26] ap181214.html [27] ap180221.html [28] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ a-whole-new-jupiter-first-science-results-from-nasa-s-juno-mission [29] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/ [30] ap190204.html [31] archivepix.html [32] lib/apsubmit2015.html [33] lib/aptree.html [34] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [35] calendar/allyears.html [36] /apod.rss [37] lib/edlinks.html [38] lib/about_apod.html [39] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190205 [40] ap190206.html [41] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [42] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [43] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [44] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [45] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [46] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [47] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [48] https://www.nasa.gov/ [49] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [50] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .