The Jovian vortex hunt is over for now

The Jovian Vortex Hunter undertaking, launched on Zooniverse in June 2022, is out of knowledge as of December 23, 2023.

Over 6,000 registered volunteers joined the undertaking to view photos from NASA’s JunoCam instrument of the swirling clouds in Jupiter’s environment and draw on them utilizing a pc mouse. Collectively, they contributed over 1,000,000 marked-up photos indicating thrilling options similar to vortices, the place winds transfer in round patterns.

The newly marked-up knowledge from the Jovian Vortex Hunters undertaking revealed greater than 7,000 vortexes, a a lot greater assortment than earlier research contained. The arduous work of volunteers resulted in developments no person had seen earlier than. For instance, the brand new knowledge exhibits that white and darkish ovals are extra distinguished within the larger latitudes, whereas the brown vortices are within the mid-latitudes.

Need to see these developments (and others) for your self? Learn the Jovian Vortex Hunters Weblog. And keep tuned… The science workforce is difficult at work analyzing the information and writing up papers on the outcomes. They hope to launch one other spherical of the Jovian Vortex Hunters undertaking quickly.