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 ====== NASA Image of the Day ====== ====== NASA Image of the Day ======
-Date: **Sun 28th June2020**\\ +Date: **Sun 19th May2024**\\ 
-Title: **Europa and Jupiter from Voyager 1**+Title: **Jupiter Diving**
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-What are those spots on Jupiter? Largest and furthestjust right of centeris the Great Red Spot -- a huge storm system that has been raging on Jupiter possibly since Giovanni Cassini'likely notation of it 355 years ago.+Take this simulated plunge and dive into the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, the Solar System's ruling gas giant. The awesome animation is based on image data from JunoCam, and the microwave radiometer on board the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft. Your view will start about 3,000 kilometers above the southern Jovian cloud tops, and you can track your progress on the display at the left. As altitude decreasestemperature increases while you dive deeper at the location of Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot. In factJuno data indicates the Great Red Spot, the Solar System's largest storm system, penetrates some 300 kilometers into the giant planet'atmosphere. For comparison, the deepest point for planet Earth's oceans is just under 11 kilometers down. Don't worry though, you'll fly back out again.
  
-It is not yet known why this Great Spot is red. The spot toward the lower left is one of Jupiter's largest moonsEuropaImages from Voyager in 1979 bolster the modern hypothesis that Europa has an underground ocean and is therefore a good place to look for extraterrestrial lifeBut what about the dark spot on the upper rightThat is a shadow of another of Jupiter's large moons: Io. Voyager 1 discovered Io to be so volcanic that no impact craters could be found.+ Dive into the Universe: Random APOD Generator 
 +<HTML><iframe width='1004' height='753' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/uj3Lq7Gu94Y?rel=0frameborder='0' allow='accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture' allowfullscreen></iframe></HTML>
  
-Sixteen frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979 were recently reprocessed and merged to create the featured image. +//If you leave a comment below, please enter the date when referring to imagesI can go back and fetch images for a specific date if you request it.//
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-About 43 years ago, Voyager 1 launched from Earth and started one of the greatest explorations of the Solar System ever. +
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-Free Download: Voyager Posters +
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-Click the image for a larger view (opens in a new tab)+
  
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