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Jovian Cloud Tops

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Bjorn Jonsson2017-05-18

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This enhanced color view of Jupiter's cloud tops was processed by citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft. The image highlights a massive counterclockwise rotating storm that appears as a white oval in the gas giant's southern hemisphere.

Juno acquired this image on Feb. 2, 2017, at 6:13 a.m. PDT (9:13 a.m. EDT), as the spacecraft performed a close flyby of Jupiter. When the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) from the planet.

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21391

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  • Title: Jovian Cloud Tops
  • Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Bjorn Jonsson
  • Date Created: 2017-05-18
  • Rights: JPL
  • Album: kboggs
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