A Recent Storm On Jupiter — Taken By Juno, NASA's Spacecraft (1 Viewer)

Here's a color-enhanced photograph of a very large storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. It was taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on October the 24th during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet.

At the time Juno was about 6,281 miles (10,108 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds on Jupiter. The spatial scale in this image is 6.7 kilometers/pixel (4.2 miles/pixel).

That's a pretty amazing shot! But so is this one below.

The above shot was also captured by Juno that day — the Jovian clouds in shades of blue. The Juno craft took this one while only 18,906 kilometers (11,747 miles) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds, which is about as far as the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia.

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Alain said:

one thing for sure if one didn't need atmopshere to life and who wind didn't impact it can be quite a creepy experience to wander there

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I think that's an interesting thought to think, and imagine. Just imagine looking up at those swirly clouds above you, which are so expansive covering the ceiling of the sky in all surrounds!