Premium Only Content

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Flies Past Io and Jupiter, With Music by Vangelis
On May 16, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, and then the gas giant soon after. Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Slightly larger than Earth’s moon, Io is a world in constant torment. Not only is the biggest planet in the solar system forever pulling at it gravitationally, but so are its Galilean siblings – Europa and the biggest moon in the solar system, Ganymede. The result is that Io is continuously stretched and squeezed, actions linked to the creation of the lava seen erupting from its many volcanoes.
This rendering provides a “starship captain” point of view of the flyby, using images from JunoCam. For both targets, Io and Jupiter, raw JunoCam images were reprojected into views similar to the perspective of a consumer camera. The Io flyby and the Jupiter approach movie were rendered separately and composed into a synchronous split-screen video.
Launched on Aug. 5, 2011, Juno embarked on a 5-year journey to Jupiter. Its mission: to probe beneath the planet's dense clouds and answer questions about the origin and evolution of Jupiter, our solar system, and giant planets in general across the cosmos. Juno arrived at the gas giant on July 4, 2016, after a 1.7-billion-mile journey, and settled into a 53-day polar orbit stretching from just above Jupiter’s cloud tops to the outer reaches of the Jovian magnetosphere. Now in its extended mission, NASA’s most distant planetary orbiter continues doing flybys of Jupiter and its moons.
-
LIVE
Pop Culture Crisis
1 hour agoBrett's Birthday Bash! Diddy Verdict IS IN! Justin Baldoni Supporters TARGETED | Ep. 869
581 watching -
LIVE
Darkhorse Podcast
3 hours agoThe 283rd Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
1,180 watching -
2:02:10
The Quartering
2 hours agoDiddy WALKS, Trans Sports Destroyed, Trumps Lawsuit WIN Over CBS & Jay Dyer!
112K12 -
LIVE
StoneMountain64
3 hours agoWarzone Reload UPDATE just dropped. New LTM & META weapons!
180 watching -
1:08:00
Russell Brand
4 hours agoAbandoning the Democrats – Lindy Li on the Collapse of Trust - SF607
119K54 -
1:30:00
Simply Bitcoin
4 hours ago $1.47 earnedIs The Worlds Richest Man SECRETLY Buying Bitcoin?! | EP 1279
15.7K4 -
LIVE
Barry Cunningham
3 hours agoPRESIDENT TRUMP HAS DEMOCRATS IN SHAMBLES AND LEE GREENWOOD INTERVIEW!
1,376 watching -
1:09:42
Sean Unpaved
3 hours agoSports, Courts, & Contracts: Lia Thomas, Diddy's Verdict, & T.J. Watt's Worth
24.3K3 -
9:02
MattMorseTV
22 hours ago $1.84 earnedThe CDC kept this HIDDEN for 25 YEARS.
20K20 -
1:06:47
Timcast
4 hours agoTrump ACCUSED Of MASS EXECUTING Illegals By DUMPING Them In The Ocean
164K231