       APOD: 2017 August 4 - North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot

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                                2017 August 4
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                  North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot
  Image Credit: NASA [3] , JPL-Caltech [4] , SwRI [5] , MSSS [6] ; Processing:
                    Gerald Eichstadt [7] , Damian Peach [8]

Explanation: On July 11, the Juno spacecraft once again swung near the
turbulent Jovian cloud tops. On its seventh orbital closest approach this
perijove passage [9] brought Juno within 3,500 kilometers of the Solar
System's largest planetary atmosphere. Near perijove the rotating JunoCam [10]
 was able to record this stunning, clear view [11]  of one of Jupiter's
signature vortices. [12] About 8,000 kilometers in diameter, the anticyclonic
storm system was spotted in Jupiter's North North Temperate Zone [13] in the
1990s. That makes it about half the size of an older and better known Jovian
anticyclone, the Great Red Spot [14] , but only a little smaller than planet
Earth. At times taking on reddish hues, the enormous storm system is fondly
known as a North North Temperate Zone Little Red Spot [15] .

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