NASA Captures Sharpest Image of Earth’s Radiation Belt #SpaceSaturday
As the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer flew by the Moon, NASA’s instruments took the sharpest-ever image of Earth’s radiation belts. Here’s more from NASA:
The Jovian Energetic Neutrals and Ions (JENI) instrument, built and managed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, on behalf of NASA, took the image as Juice soared away from Earth. What it captured is invisible to the human eye. Unlike traditional cameras that rely on light, JENI uses special sensors to capture energetic neutral atoms emitted by charged particles interacting with the extended atmospheric hydrogen gas surrounding Earth. The JENI instrument is the newest generation of this type of camera, building on the success of a similar instrument on NASA’s Cassini mission that revealed the magnetospheres of Saturn and Jupiter.
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Is that a captured image? Or a composite layered image created as a press release where possibly one layer was created from actual data? There are several parts of it that look “created” rather than captured.
(PS Love the prove-you-are-human resistor puzzle!)
Is that a captured image? Or a composite layered image created as a press release where possibly one layer was created from actual data? There are several parts of it that look “created” rather than captured.
(PS Love the prove-you-are-human resistor puzzle!)