Running a blog means posting about what interests and amazes you. Like this, from the Juno spacecraft:
This infrared image gives an unprecedented view of the southern aurora of Jupiter, as captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on August 27, 2016.
The above is at infrared frequencies. Here’s another view of the Southern hemisphere in black and white.
Several years ago I was experimenting with the new computer language Mythryl, and I conceived of a project to convert the raw data files from the Viking probes into finished picture formats. Unfortunately, my calculus was not up to my ambitions, and after writing a lot of code, and learning a lot about functional programming, I reluctantly shelved the project. It does make me wonder about the calculations necessary to convert Juno raw data into visible pictures, though.
(h/t Spaceweather.com)
