NASA's Juno to make fourth flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops today
As per NASA, Juno will make its close encounter with the giant planet at 4:57 a.m. PST (7:57 a.m. EST, 12:57 UTC) with all of its eight science instruments, including the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument, turned on to collect data during the flyby.
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The breathtaking view of the high north temperate latitudes fortuitously shows a giant storm known as NN-LRS-1, or the Little Red Spot (in the lower left in the image below).
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The mission team has started getting their newly arrived orbiter ready for operations around the largest planetary inhabitant in the solar system.
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Scientists have detected a strong light curve signal coming from OGLE-2014-BLG-1760.
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