'Clyde's Spot,' a new storm on Jupiter, discovered by amateur astronomer (photos) - Space.com

The storm isn't too far from the famous Great Red Spot.

Juno snapped a series of photos of the feature, dubbed "Clyde's Spot" — named after its discoverer Clyde Foster of South Africa — on the morning of June 2, 2020.

But unlike that famous latter storm, which has been raging for centuries, Clyde's Spot popped up not long ago.

The new storm was first spotted on May 31 by amateur astronomer Clyde Foster of Centurion, South Africa (hence the name).

The timing worked out well for Juno, which was scheduled to make its 27th close flyby of Jupiter just a few days later.

(Juno loops around Jupiter on a highly elliptical orbit, gathering most of its science data during close passes that occur every 53.5 Earth days.).

The June 2 flyby also happened to take Juno relatively close to Clyde's Spot — close enough to image it with its onboard JunoCam instrument, anyway.

The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016.