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Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Swallows Earth

This composite image was generated by combining NASA imagery of Earth with an image of Jupiter taken by astronomer Christopher Go. Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth.
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Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Christopher Go
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Measuring in at 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) in width (as of April 3, 2017) Jupiter's Great Red Spot is 1.3 times as wide as Earth. This composite image was generated by combining NASA imagery of Earth with an image of Jupiter taken by astronomer Christopher Go.

This composite image was generated by combining NASA imagery of Earth with an image of Jupiter taken by astronomer Christopher Go.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.

More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.