North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot
Explanation:
On July 11, the Juno spacecraft once again swung near
the turbulent Jovian cloud tops.
On its seventh orbital closest approach this
perijove passage
brought Juno within 3,500 kilometers of
the Solar System's largest planetary atmosphere.
Near perijove the rotating
JunoCam was able to record
this
stunning, clear view of one of Jupiter's
signature vortices.
About 8,000 kilometers in diameter, the anticyclonic storm system was
spotted in Jupiter's
North North Temperate Zone
in the 1990s.
That makes it about half the size of an older and better known
Jovian anticyclone, the
Great Red Spot,
but only a little smaller than planet Earth.
At times taking on reddish hues, the enormous storm system is
fondly known as a
North North
Temperate Zone Little Red Spot.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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