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12.12.18
Juno Mission Halfway to Jupiter Science
On Dec. 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST Juno will be 3,140 miles above Jupiter's cloud tops and hurtling by at a healthy clip of 128,802 mph.
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12.06.18
Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt
Colorful swirling clouds in Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt practically fill this image. This is the closest image captured of the Jovian clouds during the recent flyby.
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11.30.18
'dolphin' in the Jovian clouds
A cloud in the shape of a dolphin appears to be swimming through the cloud bands along the South South Temperate Belt.
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11.15.18
Io Rising
Jupiter's moon Io rises just off the horizon of the gas giant planet. Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system.
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11.08.18
Jovian Close Encounter
A multitude of magnificent, swirling clouds in Jupiter's dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from Juno.
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10.25.18
Jovian White Oval
A swirling, oval white cloud in Jupiter’s South South Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
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10.23.18
NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains
Massive structures of moving air that appear like waves in Jupiter's atmosphere were first detected by NASA's Voyager missions during their flybys of the gas-giant world in 1979.
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10.04.18
Jupiter in the Rearview Mirror
In the final minutes of a recent close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a departing view of the planet's swirling southern hemisphere.
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09.27.18
Jovian Swirls
Clouds in a Jovian jet stream, called Jet N5, swirl in the center of this color-enhanced image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
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09.13.18
Juno Captures Elusive 'Brown Barge'
A long, brown oval known as a "brown barge" in Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt is captured in this color-enhanced image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
