NASA ’s Juno spacecraft has taken a stunning series of images showing swirling storms on the surface of Jupiter .
The images were taken between 9:54 pm and 10:11 pm PDT on July 15, as Juno performed its 14th close flyby of Jupiter.
At the time, Juno’s altitude ranged from 15,700 to 3,900 miles above the planet’s cloud tops.
In the first image, an anticyclonic white oval, called ‘N5-AWO’, can be seen in the centre.
This storm then appears slightly higher in the second and third images.
Meanwhile, a storm called the ‘Little Red Spot’ is visible near the bottom of the second and third images.
And in the fourth and fifth images, the reddish-orange band that is prominently displayed is the North Temperate Belt.
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this image using data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager.
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