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The NASA probe started orbiting the planet in early July.
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This color view from NASA's Juno spacecraft is made from some of the first images taken by JunoCam after the spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 5, 2016.(Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)
Well that didn't take long.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The Juno spacecraft sent back the first image of Jupiter this week.
The<span style="color: Red;">*</span>image shows atmospheric features on Jupiter, including the famous Great Red Spot, and three of the massive planet's four largest moons — Io, Europa and Ganymede, from left to right in the image.
The probe shot the photo<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sunday, when the spacecraft was 2.7 million miles<span style="color: Red;">*</span>from Jupiter on the outbound leg of its initial orbit.
Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4 and is now in orbit around the planet. A<span style="color: Red;">*</span>camera aboard<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Juno,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>nicknamed the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>JunoCam,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>took the image.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>JunoCam is a color, visible-light camera designed to take remarkable pictures of Jupiter's poles and cloud tops, NASA said.
Better, higher-resolution images will be sent in the weeks and months ahead.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The first high-resolution images of the planet will be taken August 27 when Juno makes its next close pass to Jupiter,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Candy Hansen, Juno co-investigator from the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson.
The $1 billion ship<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
spent almost five years traveling to the giant planet, where it's slated to study<span style="color: Red;">*</span>what lies beneath the swirling clouds. Its mission will end in early 2018 when it will<span style="color: Red;">*</span>deliberately burn up in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Jupiter's atmosphere.
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