Jupiter's Great Red Spot will finally get its close-up thanks to NASA's Juno probe

For a space nerd, there's nothing quite as imagination-sparking as Jupiter's Great Red Spot. 

The 10,000-mile-wide storm that's likely been raging for centuries in Jupiter's atmosphere is past due for its close-up. But the Great Red Spot's time has finally come. NASA's Juno mission will fly just 5,600 miles above the planet's raging storm on July 10, giving humanity its first view of the spot from (comparatively) close range. 

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"Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter," Scott Bolton, Juno's principal investigator, said in a statement.  Read more...

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