http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/science/juno-nasa-jupiter.html 2016-09-05 09:32:34 Juno Offers New Look at Jupiter’s North Pole NASA released new pictures taken by the spacecraft’s camera as it finished its first of 36 orbits around our solar system’s biggest planet. === Behold, the very first close-up of NASA For NASA’s astronomers, the images reveal a hardly recognizable picture of the gas giant known for its Great Red Spot. “It’s bluer in color up there than other parts of the planet, and there are a lot of storms,” Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for Juno, said in a statement. “It looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before.” During this first orbital flyby, Juno came within about 2,500 miles of the planet and also passed over its southern pole. There, it took images of Jupiter’s brilliant southern aurora. Juno plans to complete 35 more orbital flybys over the course of its 20-month mission, according to NASA.