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Detailed explanation-1: -Success! NASA’s Juno mission has completed a close flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. All of the probe’s science instruments were operational, NASA officials said in a statement, as was the craft’s JunoCam.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is deeper than we thought, NASA Juno spacecraft finds NASA’s Juno spacecraft sweeps over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and makes a 3D map of the giant storm. The findings could shed light on gas giant exoplanets in distant solar systems.

Detailed explanation-3: -On August 5, 2011, NASA’s Juno spacecraft embarked on a 5-year journey to Jupiter, our solar system’s largest planet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter. It was built by Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC, as part of the New Frontiers program.

Detailed explanation-5: -Juno discovered that Jupiter’s core is not solid and compact but rather spread out across nearly half the planet’s diameter. One hypothesis is that something massive struck Jupiter early in its life, mixing material from the core with the hydrogen and helium that fills much of the rest of the planet.