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Exotic Marble

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this stunningly view of Jupiter during its 22nd close flyby of the planet (also referred to as “perijove 22”). In this image, south is towards the top, and the enhanced colors evokes an exotic marble and childhood joy!

 

Jupiter is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, but some of the color in its clouds may come from plumes of sulfur and phosphorus-containing gases rising from the planet's warmer interior.

 

Citizen scientist Prateek Sarpal created this image using data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager.

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Uploaded on January 7, 2020
Taken in September 2019