Jupiter Up Close | NASA Juno Mission
On April 1, 2018, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully performed its Perijove-12 Jupiter flyby. The spacecraft's camera, JunoCam, takes spectacular close-up color images. It was built and is operated by Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, California, USA. Many people at NASA, JPL, SwRI, and elsewhere have been, are, and will be required to plan and operate the Juno mission.

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Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS/SPICE/Gerald Eichstädt
Duration: 1 minute, 12 seconds
Release Date: April 16, 2018

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Jupiter Storm of the High North | NASA Juno Mission
Aug. 3, 2017: A dynamic storm at the southern edge of Jupiter’s northern polar region dominates this Jovian cloudscape, courtesy of NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

This storm is a long-lived anticyclonic oval named North North Temperate Little Red Spot 1 (NN-LRS-1); it has been tracked at least since 1993, and may be older still. An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon where winds around the storm flow in the direction opposite to that of the flow around a region of low pressure. It is the third largest anticyclonic oval on the planet, typically around 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) long. The color varies between red and off-white (as it is now), but this JunoCam image shows that it still has a pale reddish core within the radius of maximum wind speeds.

Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. The image has been rotated so that the top of the image is actually the equatorial regions while the bottom of the image is of the northern polar regions of the planet.

The image was taken on July 10, 2017 at 6:42 p.m. PDT (9:42 p.m. EDT), as the Juno spacecraft performed its seventh close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 7,111 miles (11,444 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of 44.5 degrees.

JPL manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. JPL is a division of Caltech in Pasadena.

More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran
Release Date: August 3, 2017

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot in True Color | NASA Juno Mission
July 27, 2017: This image of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Björn Jónsson using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

This true-color image offers a natural color rendition of what the Great Red Spot and surrounding areas would look like to human eyes from Juno’s position. The tumultuous atmospheric zones in and around the Great Red Spot are clearly visible.

The image was taken on July 10, 2017 at 07:10 p.m. PDT (10:10 p.m. EDT), as the Juno spacecraft performed its seventh close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 8,648 miles (13,917 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of -32.6 degrees.

JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Björn Jónsson
Release Date: July 27, 2017

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot: Would The Earth Fit Inside?

Illustration: Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Earth to scale

Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth. The storm has been monitored since 1830 and has possibly existed for more than 350 years. In modern times, the Great Red Spot has appeared to be shrinking.

The background image was taken on July 10, 2017 as the Juno spacecraft performed its 7th close flyby of Jupiter.

More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Seán Doran
Release Date: July 14, 2017

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot: Video | NASA Juno Mission

Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth. The storm has been monitored since 1830 and has possibly existed for more than 350 years. In modern times, the Great Red Spot has appeared to be shrinking.

The background image was taken on July 10, 2017 as the Juno spacecraft performed its 7th close flyby of Jupiter.

More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Seán Doran
Music: ‘Lux Aeterna’ György Ligeti/Cappella Amsterdam/Daniel Reuss/Susanne Van Els
Duration: 2 minutes
Release Date: July 16, 2017

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot (Enhanced Color) | NASA Juno Mission
July 13, 2017: This enhanced-color image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstadt and Seán Doran using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft.

This image is approximately illumination adjusted and strongly enhanced to draw viewers' eyes to the iconic storm and the turbulence around it.

The image was taken on July 10, 2017 as the Juno spacecraft performed its 7th close flyby of Jupiter.

More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Seán Doran
Release Date: July 13, 2017

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