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                              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
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    Authors & editors: [37]Robert Nemiroff ([38]MTU) & [39]Jerry Bonnell
                                 ([40]UMCP)
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                           & [49]Michigan Tech. U.

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