Juno's first flyby of Jupiter
Image releases from NASA's Juno mission's first orbital flyby of Jupiter include images from JunoCam and the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument.
Juno will perform 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter during its mission, which is scheduled to end in February 2018.
Storm systems and weather activity unlike anything encountered in the solar system are on view in these color images of Jupiter's north polar region from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter's south pole.
This infrared image gives an unprecedented view of the southern aurora of Jupiter,
A close-up view of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft on August 27, 2016.
As NASA's Juno spacecraft approached Jupiter on Aug. 27, 2016, the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument captured the planet's glow in infrared light.
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