NASA has posted a stunning image of two huge storms brewing on Jupiter to its Instagram account.
The image has already racked up over one million likes and features a storm so large the Earth could fit inside it.
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The amazing photo was actually captured late last year by Nasa’s Juno spacecraft.
The exact scale of the two storms is unknown but experts think the lower storm was so big it could have fit the Earth inside it.
Nasa said: “Two large rotating storms brew on Jupiter’s surface in this image captured by @NASASolarSystem Juno spacecraft’s visible-light imager, JunoCam, on Juno’s 38th pass at about 3,815 miles (6,140 km) altitude.
“Bright “pop-up” clouds are visible above the lower storm, casting shadows on the cloud bank below.
“As small as they appear in comparison to the large storm below, these clouds are typically 31 miles (50 km) across.”
The image is only just getting the attention it deserves on Nasa’s Instagram account but it was taken by the JunoCam on November 29, 2021.
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Juno is Nasa’s most distant planetary orbiter craft.
It actually completed its initial mission in 2016 but is now on an extended mission to observe and photograph the most distant planets in our Solar System.
Jupiter is quite a stormy planet and it has a famous ongoing storm called the Great Red Spot.
It’s one of Jupiter’s most talked-about features and spans 9,800 miles end to end.
In comparison, Earth has a diameter of around 8,000 miles.
Scientists are keeping an eye on the Great Red Spot because it’s shrinking and they don’t know why.
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