Juno perijove 6, May 19, 2017 |
Juno perijove 6, May 19, 2017 |
May 4 2017, 05:57 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
Voting for Perijove 06 started yesterday, and it will last for another almost 7 days.
This time, I'm not quite free of bias, since I'm interested in an extension of the polar time-lapse sequence, especially in a coverage of the north and south polar FFRs and the presumed edge of the respective polar haze disks. I think - well, I'm rather certain - that it's possible to infer short-time dynamics of the FFRs, and of the vortices near the edge of the haze disk. Due to the expected good contact to Earth during the PJ-6 pass we have a good chance to obtain overlapping images of these regions. More in the discussion section on the missionjuno site. Of course, there are other interesting targets, too; see Glenn's and John Rogers' (Philosophia-47) comments. A full latitude coverage would allow for a pole-to-pole animation. |
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May 25 2017, 05:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1669 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
Superb image processing and analysis. Great to see both enhanced and unenhanced/realistic versions to get the complete picture. Some first reactions - if I have the larger scale context right:
The dark areas next to D/E look like the IR hot spots at the edge of a belt. The shadow in D agrees with my subjective impression of the brighter laminar appearing clouds being higher and overlaying the darker adjacent clouds. G looks like cloud brightness variations to me. These narrow strands look similar even in differing orientations? "A" features clearly have high cloud tops. I wonder if their bases are low enough to tap into the water vapor layers, helping to give enough opacity to yield the brighter white color. The more true color images suggest these tops may still be below some of the high altitude haze. This haze is yet thin enough to have distinct shadows visible. It seems there's a narrow range of haze optical thickness that allows this type of visibility. -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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