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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has published the photos of Jupiter, which are the best in the history of observations of this gas giant. The photos were taken by the Juno probe during its 66th flyby of the fifth planet of the solar system.
The Juno spacecraft was launched in 2011 and reached Jupiter five years later in 2016, traveling a distance of 2.735 billion kilometers. Since then, the probe has regularly flown past Jupiter and its moons and photographed them, then beamed the data back to Earth.
During the last flight of the gas giant, the probe took the highest quality photos of the planet. For example, he drew a close-up of the north pole of Jupiter (a central cyclone was found in this region, surrounded by eight other cyclones, each of which is about 4000 km in diameter).
Juno also photographed Jupiter's most famous storm, the Great Red Spot. If it was twice the size of Earth in 1979, now it is "only" 1.3 times the size of our planet. Data obtained by Juno showed that the depth of the Great Red Spot storm is about 320 km. The probe also recorded large cyclones as it flew over the gas giant's south pole.
