NASA's Juno spacecraft not only continues to send crucial data and new findings of Jupiter home, but some gorgeous photos that look more like art than the planet itself.
The latest, located at the top of this article, is a close-up view of a storm and clouds in the northern hemisphere of the giant gas planet, the U.S. space agency reports in a news release. NASA says it made the photo around 5:30 a.m. Feb. 7 during Juno's 11th flyby of Jupiter.
At the time of the photo, the space agency says the spacecraft was 7,578 miles from the top of the planet's cloud tops. NASA reports the image is color-enhanced, and was processed by citizen scientist Matt Brealey by using the JunoCam imager.
Back in January of this year, Juno sent an image home of Jupiter that looks more like a painting than the planet's atmosphere.
High Above the Jovian Clouds: This image of colorful, turbulent clouds in #Jupiter's northern hemisphere was captured during my latest flyby of the planet https://t.co/zQ6OFl5WLCpic.twitter.com/NWMxnJzGwA
-- NASA's Juno Mission (@NASAJuno) January 4, 2018
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NASA has been studying Jupiter and the fascinating giant storm wider than our planet closer than ever thanks to its Juno Spacecraft.
The U.S. space agency's Juno spacecraft was launched to unlock Jupiter's secrets to improve the understanding of not only the solar system's origins, but the giant planet's as well. NASA reports that, specifically, Juno's mission will try to determine how much water is in the planet's atmosphere and to measure its composition, temperature, cloud patterns, and map its magnetic and gravity fields.
Some of its accomplishments include offering humanity's first up-close view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, discovered that the planet's atmosphere has features unlike anything else encountered in the solar system, and that the Great Red Spot storm has been shrinking for years but that as it shrinks it grows taller.
In February of this year, a NASA scientist and leader of the Jupiter-focused Juno mission said the Great Red Spot will really start to disappear in the next "decade or two."
"Juno's principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation," NASA explains of the Juno Mission.
"As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars."
The Juno spacecraft was launched in August 2011, arrived to Jupiter in July 2016, and will continue to operate with its current budget through July to bring its science orbits up to 12. NASA says the team can propose to extend the mission past July 2018, so the Juno spacecraft might not be done just yet.
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