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The beginning gravitational moving ridge ever sensed past mankind has a Twitter account, and you lot people voted to name information technology Wavey McWaveface. Clearly the internet has become self-aware, and is poking fun at itself.

Jupiter is a hot holding this week. Juno has returned a batch of images, and NASA encourages the general public to work with the raw images and submit them back. Roman Tkachenko picked 1 and cleaned information technology up into a heart-stopping beauty shot of Jupiter'southward southward pole, which is the characteristic image for this story, above. Taken with its JunoCam instrument in the visible spectrum, the image shows the terrible storms and vortices around the turbulent pole. Here'due south the original:

Image: NASA/JPL/Caltech

Juno has been stuck in a 53-day orbit after some trouble in October 2022, instead of its expected xiv-mean solar day science orbit. But it's making the most of its time around Jupiter, and doing all the science it tin can while mission control works to sort out the orbit. Its next close flyby is scheduled for March 27. Even its current, limited perspective results in a cracking deal of scientific eye processed, which yous can check out along with the mission timeline here.

Juno's polar orbit starts out skimming shallowly through the magnetosphere, only makes deeper and deeper dives. Paradigm: NASA/Caltech/JPL

Closer to home, NASA has really jumped into VR with both feet. According to Matthew Noyes, software lead at Johnson Space Middle'south Hybrid Reality Lab (talk about your chore titles), VR is the new duct tape. Noyes wants to utilize VR to everything from astronaut training to helping them stay fit while they're living aboard the International Space Station.

"We ally the very overnice graphical performance of VR today with physical objects that nosotros 3D print, allowing people to grab and interact with tools in the existent world that are very cheap to produce, overlaid in virtual reality with actually good graphics on top of those tools," Noyes told The Australian. Training astronauts in this fashion apparently gets rave reviews from the astronauts themselves.

Furthermore, VR tin exist used to help astronauts exercise. "If they're up in infinite they demand to do most two hours of exercise a day to mitigate os-density and muscle loss, and that tin get kind of tedious," Noyes said. "If we can supplant the ISS environment with maybe their favorite running rails on Earth, or images of their family, like nostalgia therapy for dementia patients, that might be extremely useful on a mission to Mars."