A mysterious object sneaks into one of the latest images of Jupiter and is shaped like a cosmic potato.
Find out what all the fuss is about and learn something new about the neighboring planet
Our solar system has many planets that make it up and from which we learn more about the region of the universe in which we live. Previously, we told you about the moons of Jupiter and that the largest planet in the solar system is full secretsalthough the one we present to you has a simple solution.
A mysterious object called Amalthea
The photo you saw on the cover of this article shows image of Jupiter which was captured by the Juno mission and published in a recent NASA paper. We can see kind of dark object about the big red dot on the planet, but we actually know what it’s about.
We are talking about one of Jupiter’s moonsspecifically the one who was baptized as Amalthea. During flight number 59 belonging Juno mission Around Jupiter, a NASA probe was able to photograph the moon, which is tiny compared to the planet, on March 7.
Ship #Juno Jupiter’s tiny moon Amalthea has been discovered, with images taken during the spacecraft’s 59th close flyby of the planet. Also visible are colorful belts and swirling storms, including the Great Red Spot.
+Information https://t.co/dFtiJoEVGq pic.twitter.com/KCKPMRWWtU—NASANET ® (@NASAINSPANISH LANGUAGE) May 14, 2024
Jupiter shows itself in all its splendorshowing us their extraordinary storms and their multi-colored belts, in addition to the famous Great Red Spot, which turns out to be a giant whirlpool that may be more than three centuries old and can hold wind speeds of almost 700 km/h. However tiny black dot This is what caught the attention of the images.
We are talking about moon Amaltheawhose radio This 84 kilometers, tiny compared to the Moon’s radius of 1,737.4 kilometers. Another of its most notable features is that it has potato shapebecause it doesn’t have enough mass to eventually form a sphere.
Of course, we are talking about a celestial body, which not only there are craters on its surface, but also integrates valleys and hills and which, in addition, passes through same orbit what he Io’s natural satellite, which is the closest large satellite to the planet. There are a lot of interesting things around Amalthea. If you want to claim that you are an expert on this subject, you can remember this. This moon is the reddest object in the solar system.because it emits more heat than it receives from the Sun.
By the way, it was Gerald Eichstedtcitizen scientist who used material raw from YunoKam tool For create pictures which we showed you through various editing processes that allowed us to observe the small moon in front of its giant home planet.
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