Astonishing close-up image of Jupiter taken by Juno last month
by David Pescovitz from on (#42M6A)
NASA's Juno spacecraft took this glamour shot of Jupiter on October 29, 2018, from about 4,400 miles (7,000) kilometers above the planet's clouds. From NASA:
A multitude of magnificent, swirling clouds in Jupiter's dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image... Appearing in the scene are several bright-white "pop-up" clouds as well as an anticyclonic storm, known as a white oval.
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstidt and Sein Doran created this image using data from the spacecraft's JunoCam imager.
JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and to process into image products at: http://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam.