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Jupiter's Pentagon Turns Hexagon
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Jupiter's Pentagon Turns Hexagon

NASA / JPL · 2019-12-12 · photograph (digital archive)

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In this annotated infrared image, six cyclones form a hexagonal pattern around a central cyclone at Jupiter's south pole. The image was generated from data collected on Nov. 4, 2019, by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission during its 23rd science pass of the planet. The JIRAM instrument measures heat radiated from the planet at an infrared wavelength of around 5 microns.

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Credit lineJupiter's Pentagon Turns Hexagon. NASA/JPL, 2019-12-12. Public domain. ID: PIA23559.
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