                   APOD: 2018 February 26 - Passing Jupiter

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                               2018 February 26
                               Passing Jupiter
    Video Credit & License [2] : NASA [3] , Juno [4] , SwRI [5] , MSSS [6] ,
 Gerald Eichstadt [7] ; Music [8] : Moonlight Sonata [9] (Ludwig van Beethoven
                                    [10] )

Explanation: Here comes Jupiter! NASA [11] 's robotic spacecraft Juno [12] is
continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits [13]  around our Solar
System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 11, the eleventh
time Juno [14] has passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. This
time-lapse, color-enhanced movie covers about four hours and morphs between 36
JunoCam images. The video [15]  begins with Jupiter rising as Juno [16]
approaches [17]  from the north. As Juno reaches its closest view -- from
about 3,500 kilometers over Jupiter's cloud tops -- the spacecraft captures
the great planet in tremendous detail. Juno [18]  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 [19] . After the
perijove, Jupiter [20]  recedes into the distance, now displaying the unusual
clouds that appear over Jupiter's south. To get desired science data [21] ,
Juno swoops so close to Jupiter [22]  that its instruments may soon fail due
to exposure to high levels of radiation. Because of this, in part, the Juno
[23]  mission is currently schedule to conclude in mid-2018 [24] , at perijove
14, when the spacecraft will be directed to dive into Jupiter's atmosphere
[25]  and melt.

                  Tomorrow's picture: bands in the sky [26]

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  [6] http://www.msss.com/
  [7] http://www.planetary.org/connect/our-experts/profiles/
gerald-eichstdt.html
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  [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._14_(Beethoven)
  [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven
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a-whole-new-jupiter-first-science-results-from-nasa-s-juno-mission
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