Our spacecraft Juno captured Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in this true color portrait from around 8,648 miles (13,917 km) away.

 Our spacecraft Juno captured Jupiter’s Great Red Spot in this true color portrait from around 8,648 miles (13,917 km) away. Scientists believe that our solar system’s most iconic storm has existed for over 350 years, though data suggest that the storm is shrinking, its height diminishing by an eighth and its width by at least a third since it was measured by our Voyager spacecraft in 1979.⁣

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The Great Red Spot is still twice as large as Earth, and recent studies by Juno indicate that the storm plunges around 200 miles (300 km) beneath the planet’s clouds. With no solid ground on Jupiter to weaken storms, winds in the Great Red Spot peak at about 400 mph (643 kph).⁣
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Image description: The Great Red Spot appears in the center of the image, as wisps of red, tan, and orange appear to spiral in the storm. The planet’s horizon arcs gently in the upper part of the photo, contrasting the beige, brown, and a hint of blue colors of the gas giant with the blackness of space.⁣
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Bjorn Jonsson⁣

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