Clyde s Spot on Jupiter is extending: Here are pictures from Juno s latest pass over India Today Web Desk Jupiter
The Juno Spacecraft, which is hovering over Jupiter, captured the intriguing evolution of a feature in the giant planet s atmosphere known as Clyde s Spot. The low pass over conducted on April 15, 2021 over the cloud tops of Jupiter found that the region is twice as big in latitude and three times as big in longitude as the original spot, and has the potential to persist for an extended period of time.
The spot is named after astronomer Clyde Foster of Centurion, South Africa, who discovered it in 2020 using his own 14-inch telescope following which Juno provided detailed information about the natural phenomenon. The feature is a plume of cloud material erupting above the upper cloud layers of the Jovian atmosphere. These powerful convective outbreaks occasionally erupt in this latitude band, known as the South Temperate Belt.
UPDATED: May 19, 2021 11:42 IST
The feature is a plume of cloud material erupting above the upper cloud layers of the Jovian atmosphere. (Photo: Nasa)
The Juno Spacecraft, which is hovering over Jupiter, captured the intriguing evolution of a feature in the giant planet’s atmosphere known as “Clyde’s Spot.” The low pass over conducted on April 15, 2021 over the cloud tops of Jupiter found that the region is twice as big in latitude and three times as big in longitude as the original spot, and has the potential to persist for an extended period of time.
The spot is named after astronomer Clyde Foster of Centurion, South Africa, who discovered it in 2020 using his own 14-inch telescope following which Juno provided detailed information about the natural phenomenon. The feature is a plume of cloud material erupting above the upper cloud layers of the Jovian atmosphere. These powerful convective outbreaks occasionally erupt in this latitude band, known as the South Temperate
What happened during Dark Ages? Telescope in Moon s crater could look back in time for answers
What happened during Dark Ages? Telescope in Moon s crater could look back in time for answers
The telescope, which is yet to be officially sanctioned by Nasa could transform humanity’s view of the cosmos.
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UPDATED: May 19, 2021 17:42 IST
The telescope, which is yet to be officially sanctioned by Nasa could transform humanity’s view of the cosmos. (Photo: Nasa)
The Hubble telescope that has been a window to the vast cosmos beyond Earth s orbit has proven to be highly instrumental in answering some of the critical questions about the universe from quasars to black holes. However, with the Hubble now ageing, scientists are now working on a new telescope, this one to be placed in a crater on the Moon.
Two Bombs and One Satellite : China eyes space race from Moon to Mars and beyond Sibu Tripathi Xi Jinping
With a recovering economy, a strongman attitude, and a plan to dominate, China is eyeing a new frontier space. The country that recently became the centre of global condemnation over the handling of the deadly coronavirus, on Friday joined an elite club of nations to land a rover on another planet.
China s first Mars exploration mission, the Tianwen-1 probe, touched down in the Utopia Planitia basin, putting the country officially in the race to Mars which has so far been dominated by Nasa and the United States.
Photo: Su Dong
GLOBAL TIMES, April 30: China has successfully sent the first section of its own space station - the Tianhe core module cabin - into preset orbit via a Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket from Wenchang spaceport in South China s Hainan Province on Thursday, kicking off an intense construction phase of the project.
Encased in the extra-large fairing of the country s state-of-the-art Long March-5B launch vehicle, the 16.6-meter-long, 4.2-meter-diameter Tianhe (literally meaning Harmony in Heaven) core module, rose from the tropical island province of Hainan at 11:23 am on Thursday morning. After a flight time of around one hour, the solar panels onboard the spacecraft smoothly unfolded and functioned normally, marking the mission s complete success, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA.)