Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2025 February 16 IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/OfM7VlonD5c?rel=0 Perijove 11: Passing Jupiter Video Credit & [3]License: [4]NASA, [5]Juno, [6]SwRI, [7]MSSS, [8]Gerald Eichstadt; [9]Music: [10]Moonlight Sonata ([11]Ludwig van Beethoven) Explanation: Here comes Jupiter. [12]NASA's robotic spacecraft [13]Juno is continuing on its highly [14]elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 11 in early 2018, the eleventh time [15]Juno 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. [16]The video begins with Jupiter rising as [17]Juno [18]approaches from the north. As Juno reaches its closest view -- from about 3,500 kilometers [19]over Jupiter's cloud tops -- the spacecraft captures the great planet in tremendous detail. [20]Juno passes light zones and dark belts of clouds that circle the planet, as well as numerous swirling circular storms, many of which are larger than [21]hurricanes on Earth. After the perijove, [22]Jupiter recedes into the distance, then displaying the unusual clouds that appear over Jupiter's south. To get desired [23]science data, Juno swoops so close to [24]Jupiter that its instruments are exposed to [25]very high levels of radiation. Tomorrow's picture: big cloud __________________________________________________________________ [26]< | [27]Archive | [28]Submissions | [29]Index | [30]Search | [31]Calendar | [32]RSS | [33]Education | [34]About APOD | [35]Discuss | [36]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [37]Robert Nemiroff ([38]MTU) & [39]Jerry Bonnell ([40]UMCP) NASA Official: Amber Straughn [41]Specific rights apply. [42]NASA Web Privacy, [43]Accessibility, [44]Notices; A service of: [45]ASD at [46]NASA / [47]GSFC, [48]NASA Science Activation & [49]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/OfM7VlonD5c?rel=0 3. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ 4. https://www.nasa.gov/ 5. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/juno/ 6. http://www.swri.org/ 7. http://www.msss.com/ 8. https://www.planetary.org/profiles/gerald-eichstdt 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q91NKLjxXyg 10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._14_(Beethoven) 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven 12. https://www.nasa.gov/ 13. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/juno/ 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_orbit 15. https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/spacecraft/ 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Ai5evtWEc 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft) 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170523.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190205.html 20. https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/ 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap171127.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220720.html 23. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/a-whole-new-jupiter-first-science-results-from-nasas-juno-mission/ 24. https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/ 25. https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/portrait-of-a-frightened-cat-closeup-breed-scottish-fold-picture-id614606664?k=20&m=614606664&s=612x612&w=0&h=KAn_QmEHFHxk8IvqySBkr6FfTYxVFVwq4kkwSnRJTTU= 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250215.html 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 29. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 30. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 31. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 32. https://apod.com/feed.rss 33. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 34. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 35. https://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=250216 36. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250217.html 37. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 38. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 39. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 40. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 41. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 42. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 43. https://www.nasa.gov/general/accessibility/ 44. https://www.nasa.gov/privacy/ 45. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 46. https://www.nasa.gov/ 47. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 48. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 49. http://www.mtu.edu/