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The image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and the storms in its southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew by Jupiter on February 12.

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Interestingly, the color-enhanced photo above was actually created using the data from three images taken by Juno as it performed its 17th flyby past Jupiter.

Juno's orbits around Jupiter has furthered NASA's understanding of the atmosphere of the gas planet as well as the origins of the solar system. It has also given us stunning views of Jupiter, rendered in great detail, such as this:

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran

Or this image of the turbulent clouds in Jupiter's northern hemisphere:

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

And this image of Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt, which is the closest image ever captured of Jupiter's clouds:

 NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Björn Jónsson

[Read more at NASA]

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