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Soaring Over Jupiter
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This striking image of Jupiter was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet. The image was taken on Sept. 1, 2017 at 2:58 p.m. PDT (5:58 p.m. EDT). At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was 4,707 miles (7,576 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of about -17.4 degrees. Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineSoaring Over Jupiter. NASA/JPL, 2017-09-21. Public domain. ID: PIA21966.
