No shade to Earth, but Jupiter has way more eclipses 🌚
No shade to Earth, but Jupiter has way more eclipses :
On April 8, 2024, the continental United States will witness its last total solar eclipse for more than 20 years. Other parts of the world will experience similar celestial events sooner, but, did you know other planets like Jupiter experience total solar eclipses, too?
Five of Jupiter’s moons, Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are either large enough or close enough to the planet to completely occult the Sun. Double, triple and multiple simultaneous eclipses are not uncommon on the planet!
Spacecrafts and space telescopes exploring other worlds have documented these extraterrestrial eclipses. During its 40th close pass by Jupiter, our @NASASolarsystem Juno spacecraft saw Ganymede cast a large, dark spot on the planet on Feb. 25, 2022.
#JunoCam captured this image from very close to Jupiter, making Ganymede’s shadow appear especially large. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 44,000 miles (71,000 km) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, and 15 times closer to the planet than Ganymede.
Image descriptions:
A two-image swipe through of one hemisphere of Jupiter seen against the darkness of space. The planet’s clouds form colorful stripes, bands and swirls in shades if blues and browns in cool tones. On the left side of the image, Jupiter’s surface is darkened by the shadow of one of its moons, Ganymede.
Credit: Data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY
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[ INFORMATION DATA: 07 April 2024 ]
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