"Juno's Stunning Image Reveals Jupiter's Enormous Great Red Spot"

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"Juno's Stunning Image Reveals Jupiter's Enormous Great Red Spot"
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NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a stunning image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm twice the size of Earth that has been churning for over 350 years. The image, taken from about 13,917 km away, shows the storm surrounded by spiralling tan, orange, and red slivers. The Great Red Spot has been shrinking since it was last measured in 1979, with recent studies by Juno indicating that the storm plunges around 200 miles beneath the planet's clouds. Juno, launched in 2011, is now in the third year of its extended mission to study Jupiter.

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