Jupiter - like you've never seen it before!

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles

With the first set of science results from the Juno spacecraft, we are seeing a whole new Jupiter.  This image shows Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection.

Storms the size of earth.  Magnetic fields that are stronger than expected.  A north and south pole that are vastly different from each other.  In the next few months we will learn a whole lot more, and with the Great Red Spot as one of the new subjects for study, the excitement continues.

See Nasa.gov for the complete story.