NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back first photos of Jupiter’s great red spot, the mysterious cyclone which is twice as wide as the earth. It’s a storm that’s raged for 350 years and has captivated scientists since the 1800s. Now, this is the first ever image of the massive storm up close. On July 10, Juno aircraft flew 5600 miles above the spot capturing the first images.
These close-ups were quite hard to capture as the spacecraft swings by Jupiter every 53.5 days, at speed approaching 1,39,000 mph. Below are the images captured by the Juno Cam.
When the photos were taken NASA shared RAW images with the public. Juno takes this images of Jupiter using the RGB filter and later NASA processes them together to make a full-colour image.
NASA's Juno also has sensors that can detect magnetic fields and compositions of Jupiter's atmosphere which will help the scientists to understand how this giant storm works and it is raging from past 350 years or more.
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