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DescriptionPIA21972 Jupiter Blues.jpg	English: See Jovian clouds in striking shades of blue in this new view taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. The Juno spacecraft captured this image when the spacecraft was only 11,747 miles (18,906 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter's clouds -- that's roughly as far as the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia. The color-enhanced image, which captures a cloud system in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, was taken on Oct. 24, 2017 at 10:24 a.m. PDT (1:24 p.m. EDT) when Juno was at a latitude of 57.57 degrees (nearly three-fifths of the way from Jupiter's equator to its north pole) and performing its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet. The spatial scale in this image is 7.75 miles/pixel (12.5 kilometers/pixel). Because of the Juno-Jupiter-Sun angle when the spacecraft captured this image, the higher-altitude clouds can be seen casting shadows on their surroundings. The behavior is most easily observable in the whitest regions in the image, but also in a few isolated spots in both the bottom and right areas of the image. Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products. More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA. Español: Nubes jovianas en llamativos tonos azules pueden apreciarse en esta nueva vista tomada por la nave espacial Juno de la NASA. La nave Juno captó esta imagen cuando se encontraba a solo 18 906 kilómetros de la parte superior de las nubes de Júpiter, una distancia aproximadamente equivalente a la que separa la ciudad de Nueva York de Perth, en Australia. La imagen, con color realzado, muestra un sistema nuboso en el hemisferio norte de Júpiter. Fue tomada el 24 de octubre de 2017 a las 10:24 a. m. PDT —1:24 p. m. EDT—, cuando Juno se hallaba a una latitud de 57,57 grados, casi a tres quintas partes del camino entre el ecuador de Júpiter y su polo norte, durante su noveno sobrevuelo cercano del planeta gigante gaseoso. La escala espacial de la imagen es de 12,5 kilómetros por píxel. Debido al ángulo entre Juno, Júpiter y el Sol en el momento de la captura, las nubes situadas a mayor altitud proyectan sombras sobre su entorno. Este comportamiento se observa con mayor facilidad en las zonas más blancas de la imagen, aunque también puede apreciarse en algunos puntos aislados de las partes inferior y derecha. Los científicos ciudadanos Gerald Eichstädt y Seán Doran procesaron esta imagen utilizando datos del generador de imágenes JunoCam. Las imágenes sin procesar de JunoCam están disponibles en [www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam](http://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam) para que el público pueda examinarlas y procesarlas en forma de productos de imagen. Hay más información sobre Juno disponible en [1](http://www.nasa.gov/juno) y [2](http://missionjuno.swri.edu). El Laboratorio de Propulsión a Chorro de la NASA gestiona la misión Juno para el investigador principal, Scott Bolton, del Southwest Research Institute de San Antonio. Juno forma parte del programa New Frontiers de la NASA, gestionado por el Centro Marshall de Vuelos Espaciales de la NASA en Huntsville, Alabama, para la Dirección de Misiones Científicas de la agencia. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, en Denver, construyó la nave espacial. Caltech, en Pasadena, California, gestiona el JPL para la NASA.
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