#PhotoOfTheDay: #Jupiter’s #Turbulent #Atmosphere
JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, captured this view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes during the spacecraft’s 69th flyby of the giant planet on Jan. 28, 2025.
Jupiter’s belts and zones stand out in this enhanced color rendition, along with the turbulence along their edges caused by winds going in different directions.
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/jupiters-turbulent-atmosphere/
"#SpaceX just conducted a giant uncontrolled experiment in atmospheric #chemistry. Earlier this year, analysts noticed something strange: #Starlink #satellites were falling out of the sky--a lot of them. What’s going on? In short: routine housecleaning. What’s not usual is the atmospheric fallout."
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=05&month=08&year=2025
Let yourself be hypnotized by these #rotor #clouds. The wind blows over the #mountain ridge and the setting sun behind the ridge gives the background light. The #vortices are very coherent. This #timelapse compresses around 30 min. into 15 secs.
Unprecedented Sea Surface Temperatures of global oceans
#Atmosphere #ClimateChange #CoastalEnvironment #HeatWaves #MarineEnvironment #NaturalEvents #Nature #Ocean
3 new pictures from Copernicus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=3&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250802191139
For decades, we spewed massive amounts of #lead into the #atmosphere from leaded #gasoline. Half a century later, it's causing memory problems for those who grew up breathing it. https://www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcoverage/aaic/116689
Glider pilots look for lift, rising air. This also applies to hang gliders and paragliders.
Sometimes, next to mountainous regions there is a zero-sum game happening. It creates regions of dead air that glider pilots should avoid.
INSIDE the BLUE GAP – Why this zone at the Alps is TRICKY for gliders, paragliders and hanggliders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjT2ZYsqsg4
Hidden cozied up to #Betelgeuse, a bright red #star in the constellation Orion, astronomers may have finally found the giant star’s long-sought companion.
This close-orbiting partner, first postulated over a century ago, matches some predictions and adds another piece to the puzzle of the mysterious supergiant star.
The companion appears to orbit the supergiant at a distance just four times that between Earth and the sun, putting the companion within Betelgeuse’s expansive outer #atmosphere.
#astronomy
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/betelgeuse-companion-star-revealed
Canada wildfires burn area the size of Croatia | Nation https://www.byteseu.com/1212974/ #atmosphere #Canada #change #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateVariabilityAndChange #Croatia #DoomsdayScenarios #EarthSciences #environment #EnvironmentalImpact #EnvironmentalImpactOfFossilFuels #EnvironmentalIssues #GlobalEnvironmentalIssues #HumanImpactOnTheEnvironment #NaturalEnvironment #NaturalHazards #nature #partners/afp #PhysicalGeography #SocietalCollapse #wildfire #Wildfires
We now have a good idea about the makeup of #Uranus’ #atmosphere
20 years of observations have given us more knowledge about the icy giant.
According to the research, which assessed Hubble images taken between 2002 and 2022, the main components of Uranus’ atmosphere are hydrogen and helium, with a small amount of methane and very small amounts of water and ammonia. Uranus appears pale blue-green because methane absorbs the red component of sunlight.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/we-now-have-a-good-idea-about-the-makeup-of-uranus-atmosphere/
Canada wildfires burn area the size of Croatia | Nation https://www.byteseu.com/1208268/ #atmosphere #Canada #change #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateVariabilityAndChange #Croatia #DoomsdayScenarios #EarthSciences #environment #EnvironmentalImpact #EnvironmentalImpactOfFossilFuels #EnvironmentalIssues #GlobalEnvironmentalIssues #HumanImpactOnTheEnvironment #NaturalEnvironment #NaturalHazards #nature #partners/afp #PhysicalGeography #SocietalCollapse #wildfire #Wildfires
Cluster scientist spotlight!
Sebastian Hoch, PhD Research Associate Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, University of Utah
Why did you become a scientist?
"I always enjoyed nature. A great chemistry teacher in high school set a hook with a simple experiment."
Read some of Sebastian's latest work: http://bit.ly/3UoSekI
More scientist spotlights: https://bit.ly/4huMS0U
for #fotovorschlag "Dinge, die mit L beginnen" / "Things that start with L"
