Exploring Jupiter's atmosphere up close

[3488]

Not really. <br /><br />As qso1 clearly stated, his view is from above the Great Red Spot. His remarkable image IMO is accurate if the Galileo atmospheric probe parachuted into the Great Red Spot or Red Spot Junior (if around then for that matter), the centre of which rises 10 KM above the surrounding cloud deck.<br /><br />The Galileo atmosphere probe descended into a narrow zone between two cloud belts. The view would probably been more of an orange / tan smog that got denser, rather than definate cloud structures as portrayed in qso1's accurate view of the Great Red Spot.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[willpittenger]

Then what would the probe have seen? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Will Pittenger<hr style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em" />Add this user box to your Wikipedia User Page to show your support for the SDC forums: <div style="margin-left:1em">{{User:Will Pittenger/User Boxes/Space.com Account}}</div> </div>

 

[3488]

Dear Will Pittenger,<br /><br />Damn good question. <br /><br />IMO not much really. The sky would have changed from black, to mauve then deep blue, then descended into a thinly veiled beige mist to start with then getting denser lower down becoming a dense hot chemical fog.<br /><br />I think that from the Galileo probe's descent location it would have been a bit of a 'bore fest'.<br /><br />It is very difficult to know for sure, seeing as no camera was aboard.<br /><br />However in many other locations, the view would have been spectacular.<br /><br />Andrew Brown.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[qso1]

Good description. That was one of the reasons that I chose a view well above the cloud tops. Once the probe enters and descends thru the clouds. The view would probably not be all that much different than being on a commercial jet and going thru a cloud.<br /><br />The image I did came from a sequence of images and one of the unposted ones was a hodgepodge of colors and textures which was to indicate radiation having an effect. This may have in part, been one reason a camera was not on board the probe. It may have required considerable shielding or radiation hardening to make it possible which of course, would add weight to the probe. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>