--- title: Jupiter Great Red Spot: Juno Gives Closest Look description: Scientists will soon get the closest look ever at Jupiter's mysterious landmark, the Great Red Spot canonical: https://time.com/4851211/jupiter-red-spot-nasa-juno/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-10T14:52:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:29:26.149Z article:section: Science og:title: Get Ready, Science Nerds: Incredible Jupiter Photos Are Coming og:description: NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly right over the planet's famous red spot og:url: https://time.com/4851211/jupiter-red-spot-nasa-juno/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f0b7a77fec3cdea/6988d509e76ad22e7f62e43a/jupiter-great-red-spot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3504 og:image:height: 1971 og:image:alt: The planet Jupiter, showing two of its moons and the Great Red Spot, 1979. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Get Ready, Science Nerds: Incredible Jupiter Photos Are Coming twitter:description: NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly right over the planet's famous red spot twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1f0b7a77fec3cdea/6988d509e76ad22e7f62e43a/jupiter-great-red-spot.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Get Ready, Science Nerds: Incredible Jupiter Photos Are Coming > Sponsored content. 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Science & Society Picture Library—SSPL via Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jul 10, 2017 2:52 PM UTC Scientists will soon get humanity’s closest-ever look at Jupiter’s mysterious landmark, the [Great Red Spot](http://time.com/3583287/jupiter-great-red-spot-space-science/). NASA’s [Juno spacecraft will fly](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-spacecraft-to-fly-over-jupiters-great-red-spot-july-10) over the planet’s most famous feature just after 10 p.m. ET Monday. It will then pass about 5,600 miles above the top of Jupiter’s clouds. The Great Red Spot, which takes up about 10,000 miles, is a giant storm that has churned on Jupiter for hundreds of years. Scientists, long puzzled by the gigantic storm, have monitored it since 1830\. Juno’s trip to the spot is the closest any spacecraft has ever gotten. “Now, Juno and her cloud-penetrating science instruments will dive in to see how deep the roots of this storm go, and help us understand how this giant storm works and what makes it so special,” Scott Bolton, NASA’s principal investigator of Juno, said in a statement. Juno has been in Jupiter’s orbit for just a little more than a year, according to [NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-spacecraft-to-fly-over-jupiters-great-red-spot-july-10). 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