Classifying the images will assist researchers understand the fluid dynamics and cloud chemistry on Jupiter, which create dazzling features like bands, areas, and “brown barges.”
Juno observed this vortex in a region of Jupiter called the “north north temperate belt,” or NNNNTB, one of the gas giant worlds lots of persistent cloud bands. Jupiter is the 5th planet from the Sun, orbiting between Mars and Saturn.
Pentagon of vortices. Mosaic of infrared images of Jupiters south pole. Credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ ASI/INAF/IAPS.
Jupiter is the fifth world from the Sun, orbiting between Mars and Saturn. As a gas giant, which Jupiter is mainly made up of hydrogen and helium, much of which is in the gaseous state.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Jovian Vortex Hunter, a new NASA resident science job, seeks your assistance spotting vortices– spiral wind patterns– and other phenomena in pictures of the world Jupiter.
Junocam, another NASA person science project, seeks assistance from members of the general public processing images from NASAs Juno Mission and selecting targets for the spacecraft. Since the new Jovian Vortex Hunter task offers images that have currently been processed by the science group, it is easy and quick for anybody to lend a hand. Classifying the images will help scientists comprehend the fluid dynamics and cloud chemistry on Jupiter, which create amazing features like bands, spots, and “brown barges.”
This amazingly in-depth appearance at a cyclonic storm in Jupiters environment was taken throughout its 23rd close flyby of the world (likewise referred to as “perijove 23”). Juno observed this vortex in a region of Jupiter called the “north north temperate belt,” or NNNNTB, one of the gas giant planets lots of persistent cloud bands.