Juno Jupiter pictures: The most STUNNING new images of the Great Red Spot

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Juno Jupiter pictures: The most STUNNING new images of the Great Red Spot
NASA’s Juno mission stared into the eye of Jupiter’s iconic storm and took close-up photograph of its Big Red Spot this week. Here are the most stunning images of Jupiter’s never-ending hurricane. “Now we have the best pictures ever of this iconic storm. “It will take us some time to analyse all the data from not only JunoCam, but Juno’s eight science instruments, to shed some new light on the past, present and future of the Great Red Spot.”The Great Red Spot is an impressive mass of swirling gas twice as wide as Earth itself. With winds of up to 400mph, it dwarves even the fiercest of tropical hurricanes recorded back on Earth.Jupiter is a massive gas planet, mostly consists of a hydrogen and helium based atmosphere. Surrounding its core is liquid ocean of hydrogen with no solid landmasses whatsoever.



Yet strangely enough Jupiter has a strong magnetic field of its own – a conundrum that the space mission investigated.  In order to peer inside the gas giant, NASA equipped the space probe with powerful magnetometers which allowed the team to map the planet’s magnetic field.Last year Jack Connerney, head of the magnetometer team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, said that the measurements were the first of their kind."This is our first opportunity to do very precise, high-accuracy mapping of the magnetic field of another planet," he said.  "We are going to be able to explore the entire three-dimensional space around Jupiter, wrapping Jupiter in a dense net of magnetic field observations completely covering the sphere."The Juno spacecraft began its lonely 588 million kilometre (365 million mile) trek to the gas giant in 2011. It finally reached its destination on July 4.Astronomy enthusiasts are encouraged to join in with NASA’s research by submitting their own photographs of Jupiter or to help out by processing Juno’s raw images.Processing the raw images reveals hidden amounts of stunning detail and information. The photographs can be found here.. 00FastNews. New source of news.
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