This stunning image of Jupiter is the result of citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill and data from the Juno spacecraft. Image Credit: Kevin M. Gill / Juno / NASA.

This Extraordinary Footage of Jupiter Will Blow Your Mind

Here is a collection of a series of stunning images of the planet Jupiter captured by NASA's Juno mission during its flyby around Jupiter. 

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The stunning footage captured by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft was released as the mission reached its halfway point.

The incredible photographs show massive whirlpools of clods soaring above the planet as the probe completed is 16th pass around the gas giant.

From left to right, this sequence of images was taken between 2:57 a.m. and 3:36 a.m. PDT (5:57 a.m. and 6:36 a.m. EDT) on April 1, 2018, as the spacecraft performed its 12th close flyby of Jupiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.
From left to right, this sequence of images was taken between 2:57 a.m. and 3:36 a.m. PDT (5:57 a.m. and 6:36 a.m. EDT) on April 1, 2018, as the spacecraft performed its 12th close flyby of Jupiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran.

The spacecraft is currently in a highly-elliptical, 53-day orbit around the gas giant, and it offers us an unprecedented view of Jupiter’s fascinating atmospheric phenomena.

While Juno orbits the planet and snaps a plethora of mind-bending images, the spacecraft’s instruments are busy peeking deep beneath the planet’s cloud cover, studying not only the planet’s auroras but helping us understand how Jupiter came into existence, what it looks like from inside, and what the gas Giants atmosphere and magnetosphere are like.

his mosaic combines color-enhanced images taken over Jupiter's north pole during Juno's perijove 12 approach on April 1, 2018. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/John Rogers.
This mosaic combines color-enhanced images taken over Jupiter’s north pole during Juno’s perijove 12 approach on April 1, 2018. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/John Rogers.
Jupiter's Magnificent Swirling Clouds. Image Credit: Juno / NASA.
Jupiter’s Magnificent Swirling Clouds. Image Credit: Juno / NASA.

You can find more stunning images captured by the Juno mission by visiting this link.


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Written by Ivan Petricevic

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