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South Pole of Jupiter as seen by Juno Spacecraft

This image shows Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection.

 

Juno launched on August 5, 2011, entering Jupiter’s orbit on July 4, 2016. 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, 2016, were published during the last week of May 2017 in two papers in the journal Science, as well as 44 additional papers in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

 

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Credit: Enhanced image by Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles based on images from NASA/JPL-Catech/SwRI/MSSS

Image Number: PIA21641

Date: (released by NASA) May 25, 2017

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Taken on May 25, 2017