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Gas Storms
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Some background information: after a journey lasting more than five years, the Juno spacecraft arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Distance from Earth: 1.74 billion miles. On October 24, it performed its eighth close flyby, passing through the planet's cloud cover and approaching to within just 3,400 kilometers of Jupiter's surface. Its mission? To collect data and images of the largest planet in our Solar System to transmit to Earth.
After a delay (Initial Phase) in data transmission, due to a solar conjunction in which communications between Jupiter and Earth were interrupted by its excessive proximity to the sun, the information, stored within the Juno probe, arrived at NASA, and the results are astonishing. The images show the planet's mysterious North and South Poles, as well as gigantic gas storms.
While we wait for new Fly-Vyes, we show you some beautiful images transmitted by the probe relating to the gas giant, the fifth planet of the Solar System.
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