Passing Jupiter
			
		
		
			Video Credit & 
License:  
NASA, 
Juno, 
SwRI, 
MSSS, 
Gerald Eichstadt; 
 Music:  
Moonlight Sonata 
(Ludwig van Beethoven)
		
		
			Here comes Jupiter!
NASA's robotic spacecraft 
Juno 
is continuing on its 53-day, 
highly-elongated orbits around our Solar System's largest planet. 
The featured video is from perijove 11, the eleventh time 
Juno 
has passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016. 
This time-lapse, color-enhanced movie covers about four hours and morphs between 36 JunoCam images.
The video begins with Jupiter rising as 
Juno 
approaches from the north.
As Juno reaches its closest view -- from about 3,500 kilometers over Jupiter's cloud tops -- the spacecraft captures the great planet in tremendous detail.
Juno passes light zones and dark belt of clouds that circle the planet, as well as numerous swirling circular storms, many of which are larger than 
hurricanes on Earth. 
After the perijove, 
Jupiter recedes into the distance, now displaying the unusual clouds that appear over Jupiter's south. 
To get desired 
science data, Juno swoops so close to 
Jupiter
that its instruments are exposed to very high levels of radiation.