A major event will be happening very soon at Jupiter, an event that will undoubtedly forever change our understanding of this massive gas giant that is the largest planet in our solar system. NASA will be using the Subaru Telescope here on Earth to take images of the weather in the planet’s atmosphere, and combine that data and imagery with an upcoming extremely close flyby of the Juno spacecraft to get the best image yet of the massive “red spot” on Jupiter’s surface.

This huge, infamous storm has fascinated scientists for decades, and now we’ll be able to see it closer than ever before thanks to the combined efforts of the telescope and the Juno spacecraft, which will come within just 9,000 kilometers of the red spot on July 10.

The Subaru Telescope is situated on the top of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, and uses the COoled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) apparatus mounted on the telescope to help with the Juno mission.

“Observations with Earth’s most powerful telescopes enhance the spacecraft’s planned observations by providing three types of additional context,” said Juno science team member Glenn Orton of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, in a statement. “We get spatial context from seeing the whole planet. We extend and fill in our temporal context from seeing features over a span of time. And we supplement with wavelengths not available from Juno. The combination of Earth-based and spacecraft observations is a powerful one-two punch in exploring Jupiter.”