Perijove 16: Passing Jupiter
			
		
		
		
			Watch Juno zoom past Jupiter 
again. 
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 16, the sixteenth time that 
Juno 
has passed near Jupiter since it arrived in mid-2016.
Each perijove passes near a 
slightly different part of Jupiter's cloud tops. 
This color-enhanced video has been digitally composed from 21 JunoCam still images, resulting in a 125-fold time-lapse.
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. 
As Juno moves away, the remarkable 
dolphin-shaped cloud is visible. 
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.