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Scientists are floored by NASA's new photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot - here's what they see in the images

Jul 14, 2017, 03:36 IST

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NASA's $1 billion Juno probe beamed back its latest photos of Jupiter on Wednesday, and the images are stunning.

The eye-popping new pictures feature the closest-ever views of the Great Red Spot (pictured above), a mega-storm about as wide as two Earths.

While the public is having a field day processing the probe's raw JunoCam data into colorful imagery, scientists are amazed by the unprecedented level of detail.

"I'm counting the times [I've picked] up my jaw in the last couple of days," Glenn Orton, a lead Juno team member and a planetary scientist at NASA JPL, told Business Insider.

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Here are a few things Orton and his colleagues have noticed in the images so far.

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