NASA's best look yet at Jupiter's Great Red Spot

These are the images that a lot of Jupiter fans have been waiting for.

The Juno spacecraft completed the closest flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot ever conducted.

Above, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in enhanced color, high dynamic range and maximum zoom. Credit NASA

Top image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt

 

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Great Red Spot. Image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin Gill

 

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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Swallows Earth. Image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Christopher Go

Measuring in at 10,159 miles in width (on April 3, 2017), Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.

 

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JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.  Image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech

 

 

NASA's best look yet at Jupiter's Great Red Spot (4)

Image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major

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