{"id":85674,"date":"2018-12-10T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/dolphin-shaped-cloud-swims-across-jupiter-in-this-awesome-nasa-view"},"modified":"2018-12-10T14:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T22:22:43","slug":"dolphin-shaped-cloud-swims-across-jupiter-in-this-awesome-nasa-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/dolphin-shaped-cloud-swims-across-jupiter-in-this-awesome-nasa-view","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin-Shaped Cloud Swims Across Jupiter in This Awesome NASA View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dolphin-shaped-cloud-swims-across-jupiter-in-this-awesome-nasa-view.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try to spot a dolphin swimming through a sea of Jovian clouds.<\/p>\n<p>In a phenomenon called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/25448-pareidolia.html\">pareidolia<\/a>, humans can find shapes in what is otherwise just random data. Is Flipper actually splashing across Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere? Obviously not. But a new series of images that showcase a dolphin-shaped cloud moving across Jupiter\u2019s southern belt is really enjoyable to look at.<\/p>\n<p>Citizen-scientists Brian Swift and Sean Doran made the images using data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/12495-jupiter-juno-mission-photos-gallery.html\">JunoCam imager<\/a>, an instrument on board NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft. On Oct. 29, the spacecraft performed its 16th close flyby of Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42672-dolphin-shaped-cloud-jupiter-juno-images.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42672-dolphin-shaped-cloud-jupiter-juno-images.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try to spot a dolphin swimming through a sea of Jovian clouds. In a phenomenon called pareidolia, humans can find shapes in what is otherwise just random data. Is Flipper actually splashing across Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere? Obviously not. But a new series of images that showcase a dolphin-shaped cloud moving across Jupiter\u2019s southern belt is really [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}