Juno spacecraft News
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The image was taken on October 29 as the spacecraft performed its 16th close flyby of Jupiter.
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During the course of its 11th science flyby of the solar system's giant planet, Juno captured a massive close-up view of a storm with bright cloud tops.
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According to NASA, the closest approach was at 6:36 am PST (9:36 am PST) Earth-received time.
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At the time, Juno was a little more than one Earth diameter from Jupiter.
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The image was taken on October 24, when the spacecraft was about 10,108 kilometres away from the tops of the clouds of Jupiter.
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Juno's next close flyby of Jupiter will occur on December 16.
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NASA released 11 colour-enhanced images of the giant planet with the south pole on the left (11th image in the sequence) and the north pole on the right (first image in the sequence).
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This mission was the closest a spacecraft has ever flown directly over the 16,000km-wide great red spot, passing as close as 3,500km above the planet and about 9,000km above the clouds of the colossal storm itself.
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As per NASA, Juno reached perijove - the point at which an orbit comes closest to Jupiter's center - on July 10 at 6:55 p.m. PDT (9:55 p.m. EDT).
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As per NASA, Juno's closest approach with the gas giant's iconic storm occured on Monday, July 10, at 6:55 p.m. PDT (9:55 p.m. EDT), peering into its deep deep red heart and passing about 2,200 miles above the planet's cloud tops.
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During the close flyby, Juno will pass about 5,600 miles above the Giant Red Spot clouds on Monday with all eight of the craft's instruments as well as its imager, JunoCam, switched on.
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The image shows haze particles over a range of altitudes on Jupiter's surface, as seen in reflected sunlight.
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This mission will be a part of Juno's sixth science flyby of the gas giant's mysterious cloud tops.
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Citizen scientists often have a gala time creating the best enhanced-colour images of gas giant by using data delivered by Juno.
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NASA has released a beautiful image of Jupiter's band of light and dark clouds.
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Taking advantage of the data provided by JunoCam, citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran have managed to create a stunning enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s bands of light and dark clouds.
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NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured a clear view of the south polar region of Jupiter.
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Using the numerous images captured by JunoCam, experts have created enhanced colour-images showing a sequenced glimpse of how how quickly the viewing geometry changes for Juno as it swoops by Jupiter.
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From 2011 to 2016 – from the year Juno was launched, till the time it entered Jupiter's orbit – the findings from the first data-collection pass, which flew within about 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) of Jupiter's swirling cloud tops on August 27, are being published this week in two papers in the journal Science, as well as 44 papers in Geophysical Research Letters.
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Juno's next close flyby of Jupiter will occur on July 11, 2017, taking it over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.
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