NASA's
Ju** spacecraft reveals Jupiter's clouds, auroras like never before
New photos beamed back to Earth from
NASA's Ju** spacecraft show the beautiful, giant planet as
never before.
Storms swirl in the new images, taken just
before Ju**'s close pass by the planet on Aug. 27. The spacecraft's closest pass that day brought it about 2,500 miles above
Jupiter's cloud tops, according to NASA.
The new photos reveal never-before-seen views of the planet's **rth polar region.
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“First glimpse of Jupiter’s **rth pole, and it looks*like***thing*we have seen or imagined before,” said
Ju** principal investigator Scott Bolton, in a
statement.*
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