NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe has taken gorgeous new photos of the giant planet
The $1 billion mission sends Juno swinging around the planet on an elliptical orbit about once every 53.5 days. The spacecraft made its eleventh close pass, or perijove, around 9:36 a.m. ET on February 7, taking some gorgeous photos of the gas giant in the process.
The new images reveal giant bands of swirling storms and a unusually bright, pillowy cloud, among other features.
Sometimes it takes Juno days (or even weeks) to beam back all of its raw image data, but the JunoCam instrument's unparalleled view is always worth the wait. The images shared online rarely come from NASA, though: The data gets posted to a special website where a community of science and art enthusiasts can take the black-and-white files and tweak them into stunning color pictures, which they upload back to the site.
Here are some of the prettiest new images we've seen from Juno's latest orbit.
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