Friday, 14 July 2017

Juno and the Great Red Spot: First NASA images from fly-by of solar system's biggest storm

Extract from ABC News

http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-07-13/juno-and-the-great-red-spot-images-begin-to-arrive/8704052

The first ever close-up images of Jupiter's gargantuan hurricane, the Great Red Spot, are beginning to trickle through from NASA's Juno spacecraft after it completed its historic fly-by a few days ago.
Travelling at about 50 kilometres per second, Juno flew within 9,000 kilometres of the billowing brick-red cloud tops of the hurricane, which has been raging for at least 200 years.

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