'Pearls' on Jupiter - from the Juno spacecraft

Astro-imager Damian Peach reprocessed one of the latest images taken by Juno’s JunoCam during its 3rd close flyby of the planet on Dec. 11. The photo highlights one of the large ‘pearls’ (right) that forms a string of  storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere. A smaller isolated storm is seen at left. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

The latest image of Jupiter, from the Juno spacecraft, showing the prominent white pearl as processed by Damian Peach, an amateur astronomer specializing in imaging the planets.  Damian Peach, an electronic engineer from Selsey, West Sussex, has spent the last ten years documenting the changing face of our solar system. An article about him can be read at Daily Mail.

The photos were taken during Sunday’s close flyby. At the time of closest approach — called perijove — Juno streaked about 2,580 miles above the gas giant’s roiling, psychedelic cloud tops traveling about 129,000 mph relative to the planet. Seven of Juno’s eight science instruments collected data during the flyby. At the time the photos were taken, the spacecraft was about 15,300 miles from the planet.

Details at Universe Today.