Tag: Great Red Spot

Juno completes Jupiter’s Great Red Spot flyby

Six years since the Juno spacecraft started its journey, it has completed a close flyby directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA has confirmed. This was humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed. "My latest #Jupiter science flyby is complete! All science instruments...

July 12, 2017

NASA probe to pass over Jupiter’s ‘Great Red Spot’ on July 10

NASA has said its Juno spacecraft will pass directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the gas giant's iconic, 16,000-km wide storm, on July 10. This will be humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature — a storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.  "Jupiter's mysterious Great Red...

July 2, 2017

Don’t miss Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Scientists have released incredible new images of Jupiter megastorm from the data sent by its Juno probe that reveal a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot. Below the Great Red Spot is visible a reddish long-lived storm known as Oval BA. It also has a series of storms shaped like white ovals, known...

January 16, 2017