NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back striking photos of huge storms swirling in Jupiter's northern hemisphere that were made by JunoCam on July 16, 2018.

(NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstäd/Seán Doran)

At a Glance

NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured incredible images of massive storms on Jupiter.The planet's Little Red Spot and another anticyclone can be seen in the images.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back striking photos of huge storms swirling in Jupiter's northern hemisphere.

The was made in 17 minutes, from 12:54 a.m. to 1:11 a.m. EDT on July 16, 2018. It was released on Friday.

At center left in the first image isa white oval that is an anticyclone, which NASA callsN5-AWO. An anticycloneis a "large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of ," the National Weather Service says.

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Another gigantic anticyclone,known as the Little Red Spot, is visible near the bottom of the second and third images. It is about the size of Earth and shouldn't be confused with the older and much bigger Great Red Spot.

A reddish-orange band prominent in the fourth and fifth images is the North North Temperate Belt.

NASA enhance, process and share their takes on Juno’s photos. This image was created byGerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran.

The Juno spacecraft was launchedAug. 5, 2011. It entered Jupiter's orbit on July 4, 2016, and its mission is expected to continue until July 2021.

Trapped between two jet streams, Jupiter's Great Red Spot is an anticyclone swirling around a center of high atmospheric pressure that makes it rotate in the opposite sense of hurricanes on Earth. It is much larger than the Little Red Spot.

(NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)