While most NASA workers were sipping coffee on Wednesday morning, the space agency's Juno probe was screaming over the cloud tops of Jupiter at roughly 130,000 miles per hour. The $1 billion mission sends Juno swinging around the planet on an elliptical orbit about once every 53.5 days. The spacecraft made its eleventh close pass, or perijove, around 9:36 a.m. ET on February 7, taking some gorgeous photos of the gas giant in the process. The new images reveal giant bands of swirling storms and a unusually bright, pillowy cloud, among other features. Sometimes it takes Juno days (or even weeks) to beam back all of its ... (full story)