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March 1, 2017
This close-up view of Jupiter captures the turbulent region just west of the Great Red Spot in the South Equatorial Belt, with resolution better than any previous pictures from Earth or other spacecraft.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this image with its JunoCam citizen science instrument when the spacecraft was a mere 5,400 miles (8,700 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloudtops on Dec. 11, 2016 at 9:14 a.m. PT (12:14 p.m. ET). Citizen scientist Sergey Dushkin produced the sublime color processing and cropped the image to draw viewers’ eyes to the dynamic clouds.
JunoCam's raw images are available at http://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.
More information about Juno is at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.
Image, Text, Credits: NASA/Tony Greicius/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Sergey Dushkin.
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