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| This image rendered by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko shows the spacecraft Juno above planet Jupiter |Credit: AP |
Long has planet Jupiter aroused our fascination with its gigantic size and the iconic Great Red Spot that it bears upon itself. To fuel that very fascination, NASA has released a captivating new view of a crescent Jupiter, showing the Great Red Spot, along with the planet's 'string of pearls'- a series of storms shaped like white ovals. Below the Great Red Spot can be seen the Oval BA, a reddish long-lived storm.
The picture was rendered by a citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko using data from the JunoCam, an instrument on board NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft.
The image was taken on December 11, 2016, from a distance of about 4,58,800 kilometers, as Juno performed its third close flyby of Jupiter.
The Great Red Spot is a giant, spinning storm in Jupiter's atmosphere. It is like a hurricane on Earth. Only much bigger than our own planet; precisely, twice its size. It has been seen on Jupiter ever since telescopes allowed humans to have a peep into the universe about 400 years ago.
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