• someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 days ago

    The "stunning" part isn't hyperbole. Juno has done amazing science. A minute into the video is one of Juno's greatest discoveries. It's an infrared image of Jupiter's north pole, a central apparently-permanent cyclone surrounded by eight smaller equidistant apparently-permanent cyclones of roughly equal size. Until Juno's observations we had no idea about this structure.

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    The south pole is similar but with fewer surrounding storms.

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    Saturn has its own thing going though, with a permanent hexagonal cloud formation at is north pole.

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  • quarrk [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    If I remember right, wasn’t the camera on Juno an afterthought? Some great images to come out of this mission. It’s not quite Cassini but up there for me.