Here's the Closest View of Jupiter's Great Red Spot That Humans Have Ever Seen
NASA ’s Juno spacecraft completedperijove 7yesterday , fly nearest to Jupiter in its 53 - day orbit and collecting intimate scientific discipline a mere 5600 miles above the petrol giant ’s swarm pinnacle . This flyby take the ballistic capsule directly over Jupiter ’s Great Red Spot , a centuries - previous , 10,000 - mil - encompassing scarlet maelstrom that has long perplexed scientists . Among the storm ’s unknowns are its deepness and perpetuate forces ....