NASA spacecraft sends back image of swirling clouds in Jupiter

New Delhi : NASA's popular Juno spacecraft has beamed back an amazing picture of Jupiter which shows the gas giant's multitude of colourful, swirling clouds. The image depicts a several bright-white 'pop-up' clouds as well as an anticyclonic storm, known as a white oval, in Jupiter's dynamic North Temperate Belt.

Sources confirmed that the spacecraft has taken this image on October 29 while it was performing its 16th close flyby across the planet.

Scientists say that Juno was about 7,000 kilometers from the planet's cloud tops, at a latitude of approximately 40 degrees north. Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran used data from the spacecraft's JunoCam imager to create a colour-enhanced image of the planet's cloud, NASA said in a statement

For now, the raw images have been made available online for the public to modify it into different image products.

Juno spacecraft main objective is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation.

For instance, Jupiter can provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars.

It is believed that Juno will further investigate provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars. The data collected by this spacecraft will help us understand how giant planets form and their roles in the solar system.