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At each perijove pass, we'll ask you to start voting on which POIs you're most interested in. In the meantime, please participate in the general conversation, comment on POIs identified by the community, or suggest a new feature that hasn't yet been discussed yet.
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map : 2018-04-11 UT
Cylindrical map generated from data submitted via the JunoCam Planning section.
General Comments
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Dear NASA; Juno Mission; SwRI;
Its been a bitter sweet week for science. But the life and the mission goes on. With risk to become inconvenient I would like to ask the following question:
JUNO Mission and the JunoCam experiment in combination with Citizen Science and Social Science is the first Space Mission of its kind. For the first time the public can actively participate and interact with the mission.
Would you rather be so Generously Kind to award the participants with a (Digital Virtual) CERTIFICATE of PARTICIPATION?
I too would like some kind of official recognition...I mean in the digital world if you don't have a selfie then it didn't happen...right? It doesn't have to be much...just keep our names on a volunteer roster open to the public...for those that chose to be published of course...then send us a little certificate we can hang on the wall. That would be nice.
who is Syukumeguri?
The Juno Mission web site server have given you a 'unique identifier' for your Personal Safety and Privacy. There is an option in the account settings to change it with a 'nickname' by your choice; or to use your real Name.
Hey, thanks for sharing the Solar Certificate! I am a huge Fan of the Sun, while I reside in a remote Mountain area where the winter and the snow are about 7 months in total, so I try to enjoy the Sun every day!
If you want to share a proper image of the Certificate you should try to use the 'Print Screen' Command. I am not very sure that those Internet Virtual Digital Certificates should be printed and hanged on the wall. It is better to stay in a digital form on your computer storage.
I have a question....how does jupiter's surface gasses stay in perfect formation and not all mix together and explode? Its a beautiful thing to look at but i dont understand how they stay perfectly seperated.
I will try to answer, but you must know that I am not a professional specialist: You probably know about the relations between the Earth and the Moon and the oceans outflows and tides. So, there are theories that the Jupiter bright and reddish Stripes are related with its orbiting planetary satellites. Of course you should add in consideration that the Jupiter is spinning around it axis with a very fast speed, so the satellites are keeping the colors in an approximately straight stripe shape. About the 'gasses' , there is no actual proof that those are gasses and that the chemical ingredients are somewhat explosive. All those are just a theories based on a Planetary Cosmic Space deduction and there is no actual scientific proof. If you are interested, you should check with the teachers; the professors; or someone from NASA.
Jupiter's atmosphere consists mostly of hydrogen, and of some helium. Impurites of other gases contribute to form the clouds. There is no mix of gases that would explode, especially no relevant amounts of free oxygen to react with the hydrogen. If abundant free oxygen ever existed on Jupiter, it reacted with abundant hydrogen to water long ago in the past. The colored clouds are made of trace amounts of more complex molecules. If some of the trace water vapor is decomposed by ultraviolet light into oxygen and hydrogen, it's small amounts that will react soon after formation, but without fire or explosion due to the very low abundance.
I would like to thank you for the fast response JUNO SPECIALIST Candy! I hope you do not mind that I am withdrawing from publicity some of mine contributions and creations from the PROCESSING GALLERY. They will still remain in the https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/ server storage though.
I also would like to ask you or some of the rest of the Team; or the citizen scientists from the 'THINK TANK' sections this type of question: As far as I understand, the JUNO CAM Tool is taking a high resolution images from Planet Jupiter. What we are seeing is a Map created from adjusting the Images of Jupiter Planetary Skin-flakes which are showing large atmospheric formations that are constantly moving and changing. Can you show approximately what part of the Jupiter hard surface or Jupiter land is actually visible? Can this be shown on some sort of Image Map? Or we are seeing just a clouds and atmospheric formations on those Maps?
With the visible light camera JunoCam, we can only see atmospheric features on Jupiter, i.e. Jupiter's cloud top, and hazes. Several hundred kilometers below Jupiter's cloud top, and hidden beneath the clouds, Jupiter's atmosphere is compressed more and more under its own weight. At some point, the pressure is large enough to make the gas behaving like a liquid. But as said before, we cannot look this deep with the JunoCam. It isn't known for sure yet, whether Jupiter has a solid core or a solid shell close to its center. Juno's gravity measurements try to infer constraints regarding the structure of Jupiter's deep interior. The gas Jupiter's outer layers consist mostly of molecular hydrogen. The second-most abundant gas is helium. The clouds are made of impurities, like frozen ammonia, water ice, or some photochemical reaction products on the basis of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, and phosphorus. Those photochemical products may be complex molecules with absorption bands in visible wavelengths defining their color. The details are subject of ongoing research.
Thank you for the answer. Perhaps, there is a possibility the Jupiter atmospheric formations also to contain lot of aerosols? I saw that you Maquet-80 and Philosophia-47 are on the THINK TANK section and are doing great Jupiter Maps. You both are very good at it. Is it possible those bluish colors on the Poles to be actually waters and /or liquids. What part of them is really visible? Can you show this on a conceptual approximate Jupiter Poles Map? Thank You!
All the visible clouds are very likely by aerosols on the micrometer scale. The aerosol particles are likely to be solid. Among the most abundant species are probably small particles of ammonia ice and water ice. I don't think, that there exists already an agreement about the precise chemical composition of the bluish, brownish, or reddish chromophores in Jupiter's atmosphere. It's unlikely, that we see droplets of liquids in visible wavelengths in Jupiter's cloud tops.
To be honest the JUNO Mission and the JunoCam are doing GREAT! I mean for 55-60 years of space exploration and 20-25 years of Internet Exploration those are a Vast Achievements. And I mean A VAST!
I was thinking lately if using the Planetary Space Deduction method and for sample use the Mendeleeys Table of Elements, would it be possible to compare and find which one of those Jupiterian Aerosols are close to the Earth's Aerosol elements with the same colors?
On the pictures they do look like some sort of Aero-Foam, much denser, more like the Shaving Foam or the Cream Foam. When in contact with air and oxygen they do turn into something with aerosol foam shape...
The main Point here is that Jupiter is some sort of Hot and Warm - far away from the Sun than the Earth, but still contains a lot of atmosphere and fast moving storms .!
There is also a little bit of sulfur from Io. Here is a link to a nice article about the Great Red Spot:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/jupiters-great-red-spot-11182014/