The Juno spacecraft captured a devilish face on Jupiter’s surface during a close flyby just before Halloween, and the gas giant could handily win any competition for the best Halloween mask.
A morbid-looking face was photographed by a NASA probe in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere in a region called Jet N1. The image shows swirling clouds and violent storms in the atmosphere, which have fashioned a feature in the planet’s atmosphere resembling a terrifying elongated face that appears to emerge from the darkness.
OK. I like it. Picasso!
The #JunoMission captured this view in Jupiter’s far north that resembles a Cubist portrait displaying multiple perspectives.
We present the @NASASolarSystem image to you on Oct. 25—what would have been Picasso’s 142nd birthday: pic.twitter.com/fJkdlb974R
— NASA (@NASA) October 25, 2023
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NASA published the bizarre image on October 25, referring to the work of Pablo Picasso, who would have celebrated his birthday that day. The photo itself is the result of working with raw data taken by the Juno probe, which is publicly accessible online. According to NASA, the author of the “Halloween” picture is amateur researcher Vladimir Tarasov.
Swirling clouds are a common sight on Jupiter, thanks to the giant planet’s turbulent meteorological ecosystem. Strong storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere produce powerful currents that create both clockwise rotating cyclones and anticlockwise rotating anticyclones.
A psychological phenomenon
Similar meteorological formations often give observers the impression that they are seeing faces or other familiar figures. This psychological phenomenon is professionally called pareidolia, and on earth we typically encounter it when recognizing faces, animals and other cloud-shaped objects. The temporal lobe of the hindbrain is responsible for the creation of pareidolia and their creation with the imagination of each individual.
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Another well-known example of extraterrestrial pareidolia is the famous Face on Mars captured already in 1976 in a photograph from the Viking 1 probe. Although experts quickly recognized that it was a huge rock formation resembling a human head, where shadows create the illusion of eyes, nose and mouth, it immediately swarmed a lot of speculation about the extraterrestrial origin of the figure.
Source: Space.com, Smithsonian Magazine
2023-10-30 14:25:00
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