TIP SHEET: CU Boulder planetary scientist can talk about Juno mission, flyby over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

CU Boulder professor Fran Bagenal of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) can talk about tonight’s flyby of NASA’s Juno spacecraft over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot.

“The feature is actually a giant storm larger than Earth that has been blowing in the planet’s atmosphere for hundreds of years,” said Bagenal, a Juno mission co-investigator. “The orbiting spacecraft will skim several thousand miles over the Great Red Spot, using instruments that let scientists peer beneath the cloud tops.”

Bagenal can be reached at bagenal@lasp.colorado.edu. For further assistance, contact Jim Scott at jim.scott@colorado.edu or 303-492-3114 or 720-381-9479.