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Although originally slated to crash into Jupiter this month, Juno, NASA's Jovian explorer, has been given a three-year extension to gather all of NASAs planned scientific measurements, NASA announced earlier this month.
If it keeps producing images like this, showcasing Jupiter's writhing, stormy face, I really hope they never crash the Absolute Unit.
The picture was snapped on May 23 as Juno swung past the planet for a 13th time, only 9,600 miles from its "surface", the tangle of tumultuous clouds that mark its exterior. The bright white hues represent clouds that are likely made of a mix of ammonia and water, while the darker blue-green spirals represent cloud material "deeper in Jupiter's atmosphere."
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NASA Gives Jupiter The Van Gogh Treatment With Magnificent New Image
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QOTD:
The forest may be quiet, but that doesn't mean
the snakes have gone away.
(Score: 2, Informative) by khallow on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:32PM
Some frequencies of EM should be able to penetrate down to where the layers of dense fluids become conductive and/or ionized. Probably, like on Earth, we'll see gradual increase in absorption with multiple sudden changes in the properties of layers of atmosphere/surface as we go down.
It quickly heats up to supercritical temperatures. Past that there's no distinction between liquid and gas. And at high enough pressure, solid layers will develop, but they won't have much in common with our concept of solids.