NASA publishes surprising image of Jupiter's 'twilight zone'

NASA is doing an experiment whose purpose is to capture the best images of the "twilight zone" of Jupiter.

This image, which was recently published by NASA, is part of that project. It was captured by the space probe Juno and shows the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter.

Juno took the photo on her eleventh flyby near the gaseous planet on February 7. The space probe was 120 thousand 533 km from the top of the cloud zone and 84.9 degrees south latitude.

How was this photograph achieved?

The image was obtained by reprocessing the JunoCam data. Who took care of this was Gerald Eichstädt.

To make it more visible a team in charge of Juno adjusted the JunoCam to take portraits, taking multiple photos at different exposure times, this would achieve the optimum light balance, according to a NASA statement.