NASA spacecraft beams back close-up views of Jupiter’s poles

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NASA spacecraft beams back close-up views of Jupiter’s poles
The Associated Press
First posted: Friday, September 02, 2016 05:45 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, September 02, 2016 05:53 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — A NASA spacecraft has sent back the best views of Jupiter yet, revealing turbulent storms in the north pole.
NASA on Friday released a batch of close-up pictures taken by the Juno spacecraft last week when it flew within 2,500 miles of Jupiter’s cloud tops. It was the first of three dozen planned close passes during the 20-month mission.
The mission’s chief scientist, Scott Bolton, says the north pole is stormy and appears bluer than the rest of the planet.
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is a gas giant shrouded in colorful stripes and swirls.
Juno entered orbit around Jupiter in July after a five-year journey to map the planet’s poles, atmosphere and interior. It’ll fly closer to Jupiter than any other spacecraft.
This Aug. 27, 2016 image provided by NASA provides a new perspective on Jupiter's south pole, seen when the Juno spacecraft was about 58,700 miles (94,500 kilometers) away. Unlike the equatorial region's familiar structure of belts and zones, the poles are mottled by clockwise and counterclockwise rotating storms of various sizes, similar to giant versions of hurricanes on Earth. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS via AP)

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[selfsame]

Will this spacecraft give more rational ideas about Jupiter, like:
There is nothing as 'gaseous planets': the planets are alike: solid, and they include water, and gaseous atmospheres; but the thing is that the large planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have very big atmospheres, and this has given such misconception that they are gaseous.

How can the planet be gaseous? But such planets are so large and their atmospheres are so tremendous.

http://www.quran-ayat.com/universe/new_page_3.htm#The_Wrong_Calculations_of_Astronomers_Ju

N.B. this Juno spacecraft has taken its pictures of Jupiter from a considerably far distance: about 4,200 kilometers above Jupiter’s clouds when it took the image of the North Pole. Therefore, the clouds will almost impair the view of Jupiter surface.

And it was about 94,500 kilometers away from Jupiter's surface when it took the image of the South Pole.
The latter is about 1/3 the distance between the Earth and Moon.

 

[Curious Cdn]

How can the planet be gaseous?

What? Does the Koran tell you that it's made out of camel dung?

The Sun is gaseous too or is this more big news to your thirteenth century mind?