The Juno spacecraft once again dove near the turbulent Jovian cloud tops. Its 16th closest approach or perijove passage, brought Juno within 3,500 kilometers of the Solar System’s largest planetary atmosphere. These frames, recorded by JunoCam while the spacecraft cruised 20 - 50 thousand kilometers above the planet’s middle southern latitudes, seem to follow a swirling cloud shaped remarkably like a dolphin, which is some thousands of kilometers across. Juno’s next perijove passage is coming up on December 21.
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS; Processing & License: Brian Swift, Sean Doran
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