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This view from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures colorful, intricate patterns in a jet stream region of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere known as "Jet N3."

In this view of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures swirling clouds in the region of the giant planet’s northern hemisphere known as "Jet N4."

Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver — extraordinarily long by mission standards.

Jupiter’s volcanically active moon Io casts its shadow on the planet in this dramatic image from Juno. As with solar eclipses on the Earth, within the dark circle racing across Jupiter’s cloud tops one would witness a full solar eclipse as Io passes in front of the Sun.

Will the Great Red Spot continue to shrink?  Only time will tell, but as we study Jupiter’s atmosphere, we learn more about how weather systems work, both on giant planets such as Jupiter and Saturn and also on our own home, Earth.

This view highlights the contrast between the colorful South Equatorial Belt and the mostly white Southern Tropical Zone, and also features Jupiter’s most famous phenomenon, the Great Red Spot. 

This stunning compilation image of Jupiter’s stormy northern hemisphere was captured by Juno as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet.

Juno captured this view of an area within a Jovian jet stream showing a vortex that has an intensely dark center.

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection beyond our world of an internal magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation.

A cyclonic storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere is captured in this image from NASA’s Juno spacecaft. Many bright white cloud tops can be seen popping up in and around the arms of the rotating storm.