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This close-up view of Jupiter captures the turbulent region just west of the Great Red Spot in the South Equatorial Belt, with resolution better than any previous pictures from Earth or other spacecraft.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft skimmed the upper wisps of Jupiter’s atmosphere when JunoCam snapped this image from an altitude of about 9,000 miles above the giant planet’s swirling cloudtops. 

NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission.

This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s south pole and its swirling atmosphere was created by citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. 

NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Thursday, February 2nd. 

JunoCam snapped this shot of Jupiter’s northern latitudes on Dec. 11, 2016 at 8:47 a.m. PST (11:47 a.m. EST), as the spacecraft performed a close flyby of the gas giant planet.

For the first time, the public can vote on which pictures the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager takes of Jupiter.

This image of a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot was created by a citizen scientist (Roman Tkachenko) using data from Juno's JunoCam instrument. 

This image, highlights the seventh of Jupiter’s eight ‘string of pearls’-- massive counterclockwise rotating storms that appear as white ovals in the gas giant's southern hemisphere.

On Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter.