What is that large dark smudge on Jupiter's side? It may remind you of a certain scene from the sci-fi film '2010: The Year We Make Contact,' where a growing black spot appears in Jupiter's atmosphere.
But this is a real photo, and the dark spot is just an elongated shadow of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.
This image was taken by the camera on board the spacecraft, JunoCam, and processed by citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos. Citizen scientists have processed the stunning images taken by JunoCam, as well as developing time-lapse movies, measuring wind flow, tracking circulation patterns in the circumpolar cyclones, and looking forAnother citizen scientist/image processer, Brian Swift created the graphic below using JunoCam data, illustrating the approximate geometry of the visible area, projected onto a globe of Jupiter.
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