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95 Minutes Over Jupiter
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This sequence of color-enhanced images shows how quickly the viewing geometry changes for NASA's Juno spacecraft as it swoops by Jupiter. The images were obtained by JunoCam. Once every 53 days, Juno swings close to Jupiter, speeding over its clouds. In just two hours, the spacecraft travels from a perch over Jupiter's north pole through its closest approach (perijove), then passes over the south pole on its way back out. This sequence shows 11 color-enhanced images from Perijove 8 (Sept.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit line95 Minutes Over Jupiter. NASA/JPL, 2017-09-28. Public domain. ID: PIA21967.