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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.

This striking view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by Juno as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet.

The southern edge of Jupiter’s north polar region is captured in this view from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The scene prominently displays a long, brown oval known as a “brown barge” located within a polar jet stream, called "Jet N4."

Dramatic atmospheric features in Jupiter's northern hemisphere are captured in this view from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The new perspective shows swirling clouds that surround a circular feature within a jet stream region called "Jet N6."