First image of the north pole of Jupiter surprising at NASA – Ultimahora.com

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Friday September 2, 2016, 14:44

, better known as NASA (National Administration for the Aeronautics and Space its acronym, National Aeronautics and Space) released the first images taken at the north pole of the planet Jupiter. The publication mentions that is unlike anything seen or imagined.

The space probe NASA Juno sent the first images of the north pole of Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet and is part of the so-called outer or gaseous planets.

The images were captured during the first flyby spacecraft with its connected instruments and show storm systems and climate activity, which is different to that seen previously on other planets with similar characteristics.

Juno successfully executed the first of 36 planned flybys orbitals when he arrived about 2,500 miles (4,200 kilometers) above the swirling clouds of Jupiter.

Download six megabytes of data collected during the six-hour transit from the top of Jupiter’s north pole below its south pole it took a day and a half, the US agency reported on its website.

“The first look over the north pole of Jupiter is unlike anything we’ve seen or imagined,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator for Juno at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

He explained that has a bluer than the rest of the planet color and there is a lot of storms. “There’s no sign of latitudinal bands or belts that are used to seeing in other latitudes, and makes Jupiter barely recognizable in this picture,” he said.

The scientist added that Saturn has a hexagon in its north pole, but there is nothing Jupiter “nowhere near” that seems. For that reason, he considers that the largest planet in the solar system is truly unique.

spacecraft Juno was released on August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and reached Jupiter on July 4, 2016. It is part of the program New Frontiers NASA, which is managed at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.