Jupiter’s Swirling Cloud Formations

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

See swirling cloud formations in the northern area of Jupiter's north temperate belt in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

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When the Cassini mission flew by the planet Jupiter in late 2000, a sequence of full disk images were taken of the planet. Assembled with proper spatial and temporal registration, the sequence could produce fourteen distinct images suitable for wrapping around a sphere.

 

These images from NASA's Juno Craft show Jupiter in
amazing detail. NASA provided these images of Jupiter's cloud covered atmosphere taken by the Juno Probe.