Jupiter Up Close and Personal

Saturn might have the rings, but with its gorgeous colors, Jupiter has always been my favorite planet (apart from Earth of course).

Now, thanks to Juno, we can enjoy the most spectacular views of it yet.



From NASA:

Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter again. NASA's robotic spacecraft Juno is continuing on its 53-day, highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. The featured video is from perijove 16, the sixteenth time that Juno has passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. Each perijove passes near a slightly different part of Jupiter's cloud tops.
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As Juno reaches its closest view -- from about 3,500 kilometers over Jupiter's cloud tops -- the spacecraft captures the great planet in tremendous detail.