                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

                         Astronomy Picture of the Day

    Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our
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                               2018 November 21
                                      [2]
                    Swirls and Colors on Jupiter from Juno
Image Credit: NASA [3] , Juno [4] , SwRI [5] , MSSS [6] ; Processing & License
                    [7] : Matt Brealey [8] , Seán Doran [9]

Explanation: What creates the colors in Jupiter's clouds? No one is sure. The
thick atmosphere of Jupiter [10] is mostly hydrogen [11]  and helium [12] ,
elements which are colorless at the low temperatures of the Jovian cloud tops
[13] . Which trace elements provide the colors remains a topic of research
[14] , although small amounts of ammonium hydrosulfide [15]  are one leading
candidate [16] . What is clear from the featured color-enhanced image [17]  --
and many similar images -- is that lighter clouds are typically higher up than
darker ones. Pictured, light clouds swirl [18]  around reddish regions [19]
toward the lower right, while they appear to cover over some darker domains on
the upper right. The featured image was taken by the robotic Juno [20]
spacecraft during its 14th low pass over Jupiter [21] earlier this year. Juno
[22]  continues in its looping elliptical orbit, swooping near the huge planet
[23] every 53 days and exploring a slightly different sector each time around.

                Tomorrow's picture: munching on dark globules

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  [5] http://www.swri.org/
  [6] http://www.msss.com/
  [7] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-imaging/profiles/
matt-brealey.html
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  [10] https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/overview/
  [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen
  [12] https://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele002.html
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  [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_hydrosulfide
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swirls-and-vortices.html
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