NASA
has started to release photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot - and they
are earlier than expected! Furthermore, NASA has invited so called
"citizen scientists" to aid in the processing of the RAW images.
Juno,
which began orbiting Jupiter back in July 2016, came to the closest
distance to Jupiter ever achieved. In its seventh perijove (the
spacecraft's closest point in orbit to Jupiter's centre), Jupiter was
only 3,500 km (2,200 miles) above Jupiter's cloud tops. After this
perijove, Jupiter slowly got a little bit farther away from Jupiter
(about 9,000 km/5,600 miles above Jupiter) before capturing its photos
directly above the Great Red Spot.
Be sure to check out all the fantastic processed photos from citizen scientists at:
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?source=public&ob_from=&ob_to=&phases%5B%5D=PERIJOVE+7&perpage=16
Photo via Alejandro Riveiro
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