Painting with Jupiter

In digital brush strokes, Jupiter’s signature atmospheric bands and vortices were feeble to produce this interplanetary post-impressionist work of work. The artistic describe from citizen scientist Rick Lundh uses files from the Juno spacecraft’s JunoCam. To paint on the digital canvas, a JunoCam describe with contrasting gentle and darkish tones used to be chosen for processing and an oil-portray machine filter applied. The describe files used to be captured exact thru perijove 10. That used to be Juno’s December 16, 2017 shut stumble upon with the solar system’s ruling gas giant. On the time the spacecraft used to be cruising about 13,000 kilometers above northern Jovian cloud tops. Now in an prolonged mission, Juno has explored Jupiter and its moons since coming into orbit round Jupiter in July of 2016.