The scary face photographed on Jupiter by NASA’s Juno spacecraft

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Zeus, who hurt you? in September NASA’s Juno mission A region of the gas giant’s atmosphere was spotted forming a frowning face, large eyes, a frowning nose and mouth.

the The scary face was filmed on September 7, during Juno’s fifty-fourth approach to Jupiter. the NASA’s spacecraft reached Jupiter’s orbit in July 2016 He has been studying the turbulent atmosphere, weather and aspects of the moons of the largest planet in our solar system ever since.

The image was “made” by Vladimir Tarasov, a scientist who studies the universe JunoCam raw image data. The photo was then shared on NASA’s social media and instantly went viral. The image was taken at an altitude of about 7,700 kilometers (4,800 miles) above Jupiter.

You can view it in JunoCam’s publicly accessible raw image library here.

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the #JunoMission This view was taken at the northernmost tip of Jupiter and looks like a cubist image showing multiple viewpoints.

We offer the @NASASolarSystem The photo is for you on October 25 – what is Picasso’s 142nd birthday: https://t.co/2WChdpAycc pic.twitter.com/fJkdlb974R

– NASA (@NASA) October 25, 2023

Juno has been busy lately. Earlier in October, NASA released images of the spacecraft’s latest flyby of the planet’s moon Io. Other spacecraft are also studying Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. Just last week, The Webb Space Telescope has detected a “high-speed jet” in the planet’s atmosphere.

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Jupiter flies like a jet stream high above the entire scene ♪

Webb detected a 3,000-mile-wide (4,800 km) jet stream above Jupiter’s equator, above the main cloud surfaces. More about Webb’s unique ability to track interactions in Jupiter’s atmosphere: https://t.co/028rfjUkiN pic.twitter.com/2Xd5mKJI2c

– NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) October 19, 2023

The gloomy face of Zeus

The region imaged by Juno is called Jet N7, and is located in the northern part of Jupiter, about 69 degrees north latitude. The photo was taken along the station of Jupiter (the line dividing the day and night sides of the planet). the A scary face appears on the day side of the barrier.

The Jet N7 area has been visited before, most recently during Juno’s flyby in May 2023. But this time, the area She didn’t look particularly happy to see a NASA spacecraft flying overhead.

The clouds in the photo look the same With a human face, albeit a little distorted. The long, narrow dark eyes are surrounded by clouds that form one Wandering eyebrow and nose with nostrils. At the bottom of the “face” there is a crescent-shaped cloud formation Forms the character’s deep frown.

Paranoia

Picture is an example ParanoiaWhich makes us humans see patterns like faces in unrelated structures. In 2020, a European satellite photographed what looked like an angel in a dune field on Mars.

In 2019, a galactic collision created a ghost-like face. Many have commented that the face resembles C-3PO from Star Wars.