<p class="title">NASA's Juno spacecraft beamed back a stunning image of a massive, raging storm in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, captured by the probe during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The image was taken on October 24, when the spacecraft was about 10,108 kilometres away from the tops of the clouds of Jupiter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The colour-enhanced images show a storm rotating counter-clockwise with a wide range of cloud altitudes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The darker clouds are expected to be deeper in the atmosphere than the brightest clouds.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Within some of the bright "arms" of this storm, smaller clouds and banks of clouds can be seen, some of which are casting shadows.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bright clouds and their shadows range from about seven to 12 kilometres in both widths and lengths.</p>.<p class="bodytext">These appear similar to the small clouds in other bright regions Juno has detected and are expected to be updrafts of ammonia ice crystals possibly mixed with water ice.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager, NASA said.</p>
<p class="title">NASA's Juno spacecraft beamed back a stunning image of a massive, raging storm in Jupiter's northern hemisphere, captured by the probe during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The image was taken on October 24, when the spacecraft was about 10,108 kilometres away from the tops of the clouds of Jupiter.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The colour-enhanced images show a storm rotating counter-clockwise with a wide range of cloud altitudes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The darker clouds are expected to be deeper in the atmosphere than the brightest clouds.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Within some of the bright "arms" of this storm, smaller clouds and banks of clouds can be seen, some of which are casting shadows.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bright clouds and their shadows range from about seven to 12 kilometres in both widths and lengths.</p>.<p class="bodytext">These appear similar to the small clouds in other bright regions Juno has detected and are expected to be updrafts of ammonia ice crystals possibly mixed with water ice.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstadt and Sean Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager, NASA said.</p>