Jupiter’s Great Red Spot seen in its true colours

This image of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot (GRS) was created by citizen scientist Björn Jónsson using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Björn Jónsson.

This true-colour image offers a natural colour rendition of what the Great Red Spot and surrounding areas would look like to human eyes from Juno’s position. The tumultuous atmospheric zones in and around the Great Red Spot are clearly visible.

The image was taken on 10 July 2017 at 2310 GMT, as the Juno spacecraft performed its seventh close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 13,917 kilometres (8,648 miles) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of -32.6 degrees.

JunoCam’s raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.