Look at the new storm on Jupiter. He was discovered by an amateur astronomer

The new storm was discovered by amateur astronomer Clyde Foster of Centurion, South Africa. Early in the morning, May 31

2020, photographing Jupiter with his telescope,Foster noticed a new spot that looked bright. The spot was not visible in images taken hours earlier by astronomers in Australia, but Foster used a filter sensitive to certain wavelengths of light.

June 2, 2020, just two days afterobservations of Clyde Foster, NASA's Juno mission completed its 27th close flight of Jupiter. A spaceship can only display a relatively thin section of the cloudy peaks of Jupiter during each passage. Although the Juno did not fly directly over the storm, its route was close enough for the mission team to determine - they would get a detailed view of the new Jupiter storm, which was unofficially called Clyde's Spot.

This "new spot" is a stream of cloud material flaring up above the cloud tops of Jupiter's atmosphere.

This image shows the location of the “SpotClyde, a new storm on Jupiter, in a white atmospheric belt just below and to the right of the Great Red Spot. (Image Credit: Image Data: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS; Image Processing by Kevin M. Gill © CC BY)

Another citizen scientist, Kevin M. Gill created the drawing using JunoCam data. This view is a map projection that combines five JunoCam images taken on June 2, 2020. At the time the pictures were taken, Juno was located at a distance of about 45 km to 95 thousand kilometers from the cloudy peaks of the planet at latitudes between 48 and 67 degrees to the south.

The figure shows Jupiter, taken by the Foster telescope, and the approximate trajectory of the Juno spacecraft as it approached the planet, moving from north to south.

NASA is making JunoCam data publicly available for both review and processing. Citizen scientist Kevin Gill processed five JunoCam images of Clyde's Spot.

The mission of "Juno" worth $ 1.1 billion. was launched in August 2011 and arrived on Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The observations made by the probe help scientists better understand the composition, structure, formation and evolution of the gas giant. Juno will continue to study Jupiter until at least July 2021, if the probe remains operational.

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