{"id":18882,"date":"2017-07-12T21:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/by-jove-juno-orbiter-snaps-the-greatest-pictures-of-jupiters-great-red-spot\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T21:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T13:30:04","slug":"by-jove-juno-orbiter-snaps-the-greatest-pictures-of-jupiters-great-red-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/by-jove-juno-orbiter-snaps-the-greatest-pictures-of-jupiters-great-red-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"By Jove! Juno orbiter snaps the greatest pictures of Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot is ready for its close-up in this processed image from NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter. (NASA \/ SwRI \/ MSSS \/ Gerald Eichst\u00e4dt \/ Se\u00e1n Doran)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The long-awaited close-ups of Jupiter\u2019s Great Red Spot have arrived from NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter, and they\u2019re spectacular.<\/p>\n

Juno has been orbiting the giant planet for more than a year, but last weekend\u2019s flyby was the closest that the probe came to the solar system\u2019s most famous superstorm. The JunoCam imager captured data from as little as 2,200 miles above the cloud tops, and the probe flew directly over the Great Red Spot at a distance of 5,600 miles.<\/p>\n

It took a couple of days for the data to be transmitted and distributed, but today, image-processing wizards around the world got their chance to work their magic on the 10,000-mile-wide spot.<\/p>\n

The results are flowing into JunoCam\u2019s online database, from NASA and mission scientists as well as the general public. Here\u2019s a sampling:<\/p>\n