File:PIA21387 - Jupiter's Swirling 'Pearl' Storm.jpg

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Description	English: This image, taken by the JunoCam imager on NASA's Juno spacecraft, highlights a swirling storm just south of one of the white oval storms on Jupiter. The image was taken on March 27, 2017, at 2:12 a.m. PDT (5:12 a.m. EDT), as the Juno spacecraft performed a close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 12,400 miles (20,000 kilometers) from the planet. Citizen scientist Jason Major enhanced the color and contrast in this image, turning the picture into a Jovian work of art. He then cropped it to focus our attention on this beautiful example of Jupiter's spinning storms. JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA. More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.
Date	27 March 2017 (published 30 March 2017)
Source	Catalog page · Full-res (JPEG · TIFF)
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Jason Major

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