Imaging recource: A great big view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot offered by NASA’s Juno spacecraft

Jupiter's red spot, which is an ongoing storm with a diameter greater than that of Earth, has long been a source of mystery on the distant planet. We've observed it before, of course, but never like NASA recently has with their Juno spacecraft. Juno launched in August of 2011 and has been orbiting Jupiter for about a year, making a close flyby of the famed red spot earlier this week. "For hundreds of years scientists have been observing, wondering and theorizing about Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Now we have the best pictures ever...
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