NASA's $1 Billion Jupiter Probe Just Sent Back Breathtaking New Images Of The Great Red Spot

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NASA's spunky Juno test has restored its initially close-up photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, and they are staggering. 

On Monday, Juno flew around 5,600 miles over the secretive whirlwind — more than a million miles nearer than any past shuttle has flown. 

The Great Red Spot is a monstrous tempest about twice as wide as Earth. It has tumbled in the planet's environment for no less than 350 years. 

Juno took the new photographs on its seventh go around the gas-mammoth planet. The shuttle swings by Jupiter once every 53 1/2 days at speeds moving toward 130,000 mph, which makes such close-ups hard to catch. 

After each flyby, NASA gives JunoCam's crude picture information to people in general, and a group of beginners and experts turns the quieted, natural photographs into striking shading pictures. 

The following are crisp pictures of the Great Red Spot, alongside some other amazing shots from past flybys.


At its nearest point, Juno flew so near the Great Red Spot that it couldn't catch the entire thing in one view. The picture underneath demonstrates the rough edge that JunoCam could see by then.


Making the assignment much all the more difficult: The test zoomed by at a speed of around 34 miles per second. That is sufficiently rapid to cross the mainland US in somewhat more than a moment. 

Thus, JunoCam strafed the planet with a progression of pictures.

Getting inside an inestimable breath of the tempest enabled Juno to shaft back pictures that demonstrate the Great Red Spot in exceptional detail, similar to the ones beneath.



These amazing 3D pictures demonstrate the profundity of the tempest's cloud layers. Winds in the Great Red Spot blow at paces of around 400 mph.


Closest to the red spot on Jupiter



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