NASA's Juno Spacecraft Swooped Over Jupiter To Snap Swirling Gas Clouds & It's Spectacular!

On its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet, NASA¡¯s Juno spacecraft captured swirling clouds over Jupiter and it's breathtaking!

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The four-photo series released by NASA shows a head-on look at the planet and its stormy south pole. This series of enhanced-colour images shows Jupiter up close and personal, reports NASA.

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The Juno spacecraft was launched in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016.

Since then, the spacecraft has been studying the giant planet in great detail.

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"At the times the images were taken, the spacecraft ranged from 7,545 to 14,234 miles (12,143 to 22,908 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude range of -28.5406 to -44.4912 degrees," NASA officials wrote in a description of the images.

The mission is is scheduled to keep studying Jupiter through July 2018,