Seized by investigation Juno On his 31st flight for the gas company. The creation process Lightening It occurs with different conditions than our planet.
task Juno from NASA managed to capture a build Lightening in the atmosphere Thursday.
An investigation was held in the middle His flight to the gas planet is 31By the end of 2020. The North American space agency recently revealed it to the world.
Lightning bolts!
The image was acquired by the instrument Junogame of the spacecraft. It is a visible-light color camera designed to image Jupiter’s cloud tops. It was added to the spacecraft specifically for public engagement purposes, but has also proven to be important for scientific studies.
At the time the original film was shot, Juno About 32 thousand km above the clouds ThursdayAt about 78 degrees latitude when approaching the planet.
In 2022, citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed the image from the study’s raw data.
That photo looks like this Lightening:
Because they are?
The spacecraft has managed to carry out 51 overflights to date, which has allowed it to learn how this phenomenon develops under conditions very different from Earth.
“On Earth, The Lightning bolts Water forms in clouds and occurs frequently near the equator Thursday It is possible Lightning bolts It also occurs in clouds containing solutions of ammonia and water, and is often seen near the poles,” agency officials wrote. NASA In image description.
According to a space agency infographic, water vapor mixes with atmospheric ammonia, which acts as an antifreeze, allowing water vapor to rise in strong updrafts up to 22 km from the surface. Temperatures there range from 121-150 below zero.
Soft hail and water vapor rise far above Earth before succumbing to gravity. Friction occurs between soft hail and water vapor Lightening.
The sun heats the poles and the Earth’s equator differently, as well as the ocean, whose natural temperature differences must equalize, resulting in storms that mix the equatorial heat with the cold poles. Most lightning strikes occur near our equator. Thursday No solar temperature differences: heat Thursday It comes from within and produces improvements that can occur anywhere, even at the poles.
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Juno, a long-term mission
Juno It started its work in 2016 and has given us Great views of the planet and some of its moons.
Its operations should have ended in 2021, but Their performance has been so good that it has been extended till September 2025I hope you can continue to work It continues to do so to this day.
Its next approach to the planet will take place on June 23. In this new extended mission, the Giant also examines the maintenance rings.
Their work will be completed Extract from European Space Agency (ESA)..
ThursdayA thousand times the size of Earth, it has a core surrounded by liquid hydrogen and an atmosphere of helium and gaseous hydrogen. NASA. It is the fifth planet from the Sun, millions of kilometers away from the source of heat and energy in the Solar System.
