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.
-
2:03:25
The Quartering
3 hours agoNYC Lunatic Update, Doxxing Website For Men OWNED, Walmart Stabber Update, 2 Men Buy Baby...
92.5K12 -
LIVE
Pop Culture Crisis
1 hour agoBillie Eilish & Sydney Sweeney Blamed For 'Whiteness', Millennials WORRIED About Gen Z | Ep. 887
560 watching -
LIVE
Barry Cunningham
3 hours agoSYDNEY SWEENEY PROVES PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RIGHT! EVERYTHING WOKE TURNS TO....
1,108 watching -
LIVE
The HotSeat
48 minutes ago💥 Chuck Schumer MELTS DOWN Over Voter ID! Are Democrats Really This Delusional?
210 watching -
18:15
Clownfish TV
11 hours agoCartoon Network Just Got DROPPED!
1.07K11 -
1:13:26
Russell Brand
4 hours agoShooting RAMPAGE In NYC + Trump HUMILIATES Starmer During UK Visit - SF622
142K32 -
10:21
Colion Noir
6 hours agoCaught On Camera: Armed Veteran With AR-15 Shoots Man Who Fires Into Crowd With Drum Magazine
17.4K16 -
20:37
Degenerate Jay
5 hours agoThe Fantastic Four: First Steps Review - Fantastic Or Failure?
2.9K1 -
6:43:48
JuicyJohns
7 hours ago $2.91 earned🟢#1 REBIRTH PLAYER 10.2+ KD🟢 !loadout
59.3K2 -
1:01:52
Sean Unpaved
3 hours agoRyne Sandberg's Legacy, Madden's 99 Club, NIL's Locker Room Heat, & Wilkins' Kiss-and-Run
22.7K1