恰逢万圣节，NASA的朱诺任务在木星上发现了一张诡异的“面孔”

On Sept. 7, 2023, during its 54th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of an area in the giant planet’s far northern regions called Jet N7. The image shows turbulent clouds and storms along Jupiter’s terminator, the dividing line between the day and night sides of the planet. The low angle of sunlight highlights the complex topography of features in this region, which scientists have studied to better understand the processes playing out in Jupiter’s atmosphere.

As often occurs in views from Juno, Jupiter’s clouds in this picture lend themselves to pareidolia, the effect that causes observers to perceive faces or other patterns in largely random patterns.

Citizen scientist Vladimir Tarasov made this image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 4,800 miles (about 7,700 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 69 degrees north.

JunoCam’s raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing. More information about NASA citizen science can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience.

More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu. For more about this finding and other science results, see https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings.

Image credit:
Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Image processing by Vladimir Tarasov © CC BY

2023年9月7日，在第54次近距离飞越木星时，NASA的朱诺号任务拍摄到了这颗巨大行星遥远北部地区一个名为Jet N7的区域的景象。这张照片显示了木星的明暗分界线上的湍流云层和风暴，这是木星白天和黑夜的分界线。低角度的阳光突出了该地区复杂的地形特征，科学家们对其进行了研究，以更好地了解木星大气中发生的过程。

就像经常在朱诺号上看到的那样，这张照片中的木星云层很容易产生幻想性视错觉，这种效应会让观察者以很大程度上随机的方式感知人脸或其他图案。

公民科学家弗拉基米尔·塔拉索夫使用JunoCam仪器的原始数据制作了这张照片。在拍摄原始图像时，朱诺号宇宙飞船位于木星云顶上方约4800英里（约7700公里）处，北纬约69度。

公众可以在https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing上阅读和处理JunoCam的原始图像并制作成图像产品。关于NASA公民科学的更多信息，请访问https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience。

如欲了解更多关于朱诺号的信息，请访问https://www.nasa.gov/juno和https://missionjuno.swri.edu。如欲了解更多关于这一发现和其他科学结果，请访问https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings。