Ephemeral view of the mint's "Innovation" coins 0

[RWB]

Compare the US Mint’s vapid “Innovation” coin designs with some real innovation – right from Mother Nature.

The Juno spacecraft’s JunoCam instrument takes raw unprocessed photos of Jupiter, and NASA puts them up on the web for people to work with. NASA shares some of those images with the rest of us. This new image of Jupiter’s swirling, mesmerizing cloud tops is from the JunoCam, and Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran, two names familiar to Jupiter fans, have worked their magic on it.

The raw image was captured during Juno’s 16th close flyby of Jupiter, on October 29, 2018. It shows a “white oval” feature, which is an anticyclonic storm, and some white “pop-up” clouds. Pop-ups are storms that rise above the other clouds, sometimes casting shadows.

This image was captured when Juno was about 4,400 miles from the planet’s cloud tops, and at a latitude of approximately 40 degrees north in the North Temperate Belt.

Edited September 9, 2020 by RWB