Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is visible in beautiful detail in this image capturing one of the white ovals in the “String of Pearls,” one of eight massive rotating storms at 40 degrees south latitude on the gas giant planet.The color-enhanced image was taken on October 24, 2017 at 11:11 a.m. PDT, as Juno performed its ninth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was 20,577 miles from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds at a latitude of minus 52.96 degrees.

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