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NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
With all of the worrying things happening here, on earth, one way to take your mind off them is to look at the beauty of the cosmos. Luckily, NASA is still out there exploring outer space and providing us with the latest wonders. Recently The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released the brand new imagery of Jupiter. The captivating display of the stormy southern hemisphere of the planet which exists 484 million miles away from us, prompted us to share a list of most fascinating photos NASA has taken of the planet.
Nasa's Juno spacecraft has been taking snaps of the planet since it's first close pass by Jupiter in 2016. Since then, Juno took stunning images of and it, helping scientists learn the important information about the gas giant.
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#1
NASA’s Juno spacecraft was a little more than one Earth diameter from Jupiter when it captured this mind-bending, color-enhanced view of the planet’s tumultuous atmosphere.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
Jupiter is my favorite planet in our solar system (besides Earth, of course).
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#2
A multitude of swirling clouds in Jupiter's dynamic North North Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. Appearing in the scene are several bright-white “pop-up” clouds as well as an anticyclonic storm, known as a white oval.
Colin L 5 years ago
It's hard to imagine just how large those are. I know we think of hurricanes on earth being large, but these would span continents.
Philly Bob Squires 5 years ago
One standard storm would be about the size of the entire Earth...
#3
This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region.
Wottermehlon Doge 5 years ago
wow...this looks like something Van Gogh would do. this is spectacular
Tim Jacquie Jacquie Tim 5 years ago
That is the first thing that popped into my mind.
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katboxjanitor 5 years ago
I see glimpses of so many Masters of various media in this one. Klimt, van Gogh, Wright, so many names I cannont pull from my memory right now.
#4
See Jovian clouds in striking shades of blue in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
Tiger Aycoffy 5 years ago
THis one is the faces planet 🌎 with a little angel 👼 lost into the faces ... if you loo well you will find the little boy a angel 👼 lost between many different faces👆
#5
During its 24th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of a chaotic, stormy area of the planet’s northern hemisphere known as a folded filamentary region. Jupiter has no solid surface in the same way Earth does. Data collected by Juno indicate that some of the giant planet’s winds run deeper and last longer than similar atmospheric processes on Earth.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
Yes, for anyone who doesn't know about this, if you could go there, you would just fall into the planet, with the atmosphere getting thicker until you got stuck in it but there would not be any land to reach.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
That's incredible and now I'm super curious. I can't even wrap my brain around that
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Achirayan Tepkasetkul 5 years ago
Beautiful and Benevolent Planet for All Sagittarius and the whole world too.
#6
Jupiter’s volcanically active moon Io casts its shadow on the planet in this dramatic image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. As with solar eclipses on the Earth, within the dark circle racing across Jupiter’s cloud tops one would witness a full solar eclipse as Io passes in front of the Sun.
Sterling Malory Archer 5 years ago
All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.
Tiger Aycoffy 5 years ago
That’s not true... Juno spacecraft is not like that circle ⭕️ and a solar Eclipse can’t let you see the shadow of anything down the sun ☀️ In the moment of the eclipse everything ISS dark The Who planet ...
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
Lol, no, it's actually the void left in my heart being greedy and going for Jupiter because apparently my soul and will to live wasn't enough
#7
NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at Jupiter’s tumultuous northern regions during the spacecraft’s close approach to the planet on Feb. 17, 2020.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
I'd like to watch the weather presenters on Jupiter. "It's going to be pretty stormy today. Just like every day for the past billion years..."
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
"But today, we'll have a chance of **more** storm than usual." *turning away from camera and toward storm chart* "*Yay*."
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Smiley Rie 5 years ago (edited)
What a beautiful planet - some amazing creatures you can see in their super stormy clouds. Who else can see the lion in the centre RHS?
#8
This striking view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet.
*sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 5 years ago
Not-so-fun fact: The giant red dot is a storm that has been raging on for about 3 centuries, but it has been shrinking a significant amount lately, and could be totally gone by the time 20 or 30 years has passed.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
This marble is 1.3 times the size of Earth
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Grayson Byers 5 years ago
yes its a storm thats been raging on for a billion years
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Nandita Chaturvedi 5 years ago
Looking at this picture the surface looks like porcelain... So smooth... Concealing the storm within
#9
This image of Jupiter’s turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed its most recent close flyby of the gas giant planet on Dec. 21, 2018.
Freya the Wanderer 5 years ago
Someday we will have permanent, inhabited space stations near Jupiter. How lucky will the people on them be with a free, ever-changing art gallery next door.
#10
Thick white clouds are present in this JunoCam image of Jupiter's equatorial zone. These clouds complicate the interpretation of infrared measurements of water. At microwave frequencies, the same clouds are transparent, allowing Juno's Microwave Radiometer to measure water deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. The image was acquired during Juno's flyby of the gas giant on Dec. 16, 2017.
#11
This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter’s northern hemisphere.
#12
This image shows Jupiter’s south pole, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection.
Astrid Nineor 5 years ago
If you, like me, can't quite picture that size: Distance from London to Beijing: 8161 kilometers or 5071 miles
Emma-Louise Selwood 5 years ago
Looks like a gem stone, cut open to view the intricacies of its growth
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
For any of y’all Americans, 600 miles is about New York City to Detroit, Michigan
#13
This view from NASA's Juno spacecraft captures colorful, intricate patterns in a jet stream region of Jupiter's northern hemisphere known as "Jet N3."
#14
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of an area within a Jovian jet stream showing a vortex that has an intensely dark center. Nearby, other features display bright, high altitude clouds that have puffed up into the sunlight.
Wottermehlon Doge 5 years ago
as Colin L said, those storms we see span continents wide, maybe even earths wide!
#15
A dynamic storm at the southern edge of Jupiter’s northern polar region dominates this Jovian cloudscape, courtesy of NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
Marco Conti 5 years ago
Nope. Clouds can be made of many things. Titan's clouds are made of Methane and its lakes are hydrocarbon. Other than that, it's remarkably earth like. Same thing here. Hydrogen and a bunch of other nasty stuff.
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#16
This image of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent zones was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
#17
This image of Jupiter’s swirling south polar region was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it neared completion of its tenth close flyby of the gas giant planet.
#18
See Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in beautiful detail in this new image taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in the “String of Pearls,” one of eight massive rotating storms at 40 degrees south latitude on the gas giant planet.
Jerri Angermueller 5 years ago
I thought the String of Pearls referred to the meteorite which recently fell into Jupiter's atmosphere in a string of pieces. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I've often wondered if the big red spot wasn't created by a good-sized iron-based planet falling into Jupiter before known history, and is still dissolving in Jupiter's atmosphere after all this time. That would explain why the spot is shrinking. Has the meteorite we all witnessed a few years ago left storms in Jupiter's atmosphere that we can still see today? Jerri A.
#19
This view of Jupiter’s atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes something remarkable: two storms caught in the act of merging.
#20
Colorful swirling cloud belts dominate Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in this image captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
#21
This color-enhanced image of a massive, raging storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet.
#22
See intricate cloud patterns in the northern hemisphere of Jupiter in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I don’t think so, but then again there’s never no storms on Earth either
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Dramatic atmospheric features in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere are captured in this view from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The new perspective shows swirling clouds that surround a circular feature within a jet stream region called "Jet N6."
Ania Barrett 5 years ago
Yeah, I can definitely see some distorted faces in here. What does it say about me?
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NAS 5 years ago
The pictures of Jupiter are exquisitely beautiful, but I feel disturbed at the same time looking at them, and I have absolutely no idea why! Does anyone have the same feeling or explanation for this?
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
You know how tiny you are compared to it, and this is one of the smaller planets in the galaxy. Mankind is powerless against this force of nature
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Tanya Wade 5 years ago
I see a man sitting in the dark area, smoking a “peace pipe”😁. Do you see it?
#24
This image captures the intensity of the jets and vortices in Jupiter’s North North Temperate Belt.
#25
Small bright clouds dot Jupiter’s entire south tropical zone in this image acquired by JunoCam on NASA’s Juno spacecraft on May 19, 2017, at an altitude of 7,990 miles (12,858 kilometers). Although the bright clouds appear tiny in this vast Jovian cloudscape, they actually are cloud towers roughly 30 miles (50 kilometers) wide and 30 miles (50 kilometers) high that cast shadows on the clouds below. On Jupiter, clouds this high are almost certainly composed of water and/or ammonia ice, and they may be sources of lightning. This is the first time so many cloud towers have been visible, possibly because the late-afternoon lighting is particularly good at this geometry.
Ashley Kuras-Schoonbeek 5 years ago
Tiny looking, but at that scale that's oceans of water... It just has no where to fall
#26
Colorful swirling clouds in Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt practically fill this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. This is the closest image captured of the Jovian clouds during this recent flyby of the gas giant planet.
#27
See swirling cloud formations in the northern area of Jupiter's north temperate belt in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
Al Rarick 5 years ago
Once called a failed Sun, perhaps Jupiter's gravity has Swallowed lots of things in its time. With the gravity of this planet its Hydrogen may even be in metallic state. Still I wonder if this planet is a gas giant has there been x-rays of the planet? or is that not possible due to how large the mass is?
Grayson Byers 5 years ago
umm. they said there are clouds then that must mean that theres water
#28
NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at the southern hemisphere of Jupiter on Feb. 17, 2020, during the spacecraft’s most recent close approach to the giant planet.
#29
This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet.
#30
A swirling, oval white cloud in Jupiter’s South South Temperate Belt is captured in this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. Known as White Oval A5, the feature is an anticyclonic storm. An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon where winds around the storm flow in the direction opposite to those of the flow around a region of low pressure.
rick hctep (Rick45) 5 years ago
It will not be long until Earth is like this planet after us lot have buggered it up.
Kathleen Nee-hein 5 years ago
just wondering has anyone ever thought that the storms are man made by the inhabitants of the planet and below the storms is a planet of jupiterians just living their lives unseen by the universe
#31
This enhanced-color image of Jupiter’s bands of light and dark clouds was created by citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
#32
This stunning image of Jupiter's stormy northern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it performed a close pass of the gas giant planet. Some bright-white clouds can be seen popping up to high altitudes on the right side of Jupiter's disk.
#33
In the final minutes of a recent close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a departing view of the planet's swirling southern hemisphere.
#34
A long, brown oval known as a "brown barge" in Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt is captured in this color-enhanced image from NASA's Juno spacecraft.
#35
This image of Jupiter's southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft on the outbound leg of a close flyby of the gas-giant planet. Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill created this image using data from the spacecraft's JunoCam imager.
#36
This enhanced-color image of a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter seems to reveal a Jovian “galaxy” of swirling storms.
#37
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this stunningly detailed look at a cyclonic storm in Jupiter’s atmosphere during its 23rd close flyby of the planet (also referred to as “perijove 23”).
#38
In this view of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures swirling clouds in the region of the giant planet’s northern hemisphere known as “Jet N4.”
#39
NASA’s Juno spacecraft saw this striking vista during its most recent close flyby of Jupiter. This view highlights the contrast between the colorful South Equatorial Belt and the mostly white Southern Tropical Zone, a latitude that also features Jupiter’s most famous phenomenon, the persistent, anticyclonic storm known as the Great Red Spot.
#40
This image of Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Björn Jónsson using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
#41
A close-up of the bright clouds that dot Jupiter’s south tropical zone, as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
#43
This enhanced color view of Jupiter’s cloud tops was processed by citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson using data from the JunoCam instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The image highlights a massive counterclockwise rotating storm that appears as a white oval in the gas giant’s southern hemisphere.
#44
See a jet stream speeding through Jupiter’s atmosphere in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The jet stream, called Jet N2, was captured along the dynamic northern temperate belts of the gas giant planet. It is the white stream visible from top left to bottom right in the image.
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Jo Choto 5 years ago
I find planet/space images so peaceful. I'd buy these images as art in a heartbeat.
mph seti 5 years ago
You can download full res images from NASA/JPL's websites and have them printed. They are free/public domain images. Some of them are large enough to print really well at 8x10" and even larger. Most home printers won't do true fine art quality, but a print shop can and will, if you pay for it and supply them the image(s) on a USB stick.
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katboxjanitor 5 years ago
Incredible to think that humans built the machines that made it all the way out there and we were able to receive all this data.
Brett Connor 5 years ago
These are all FAKE. I have Astronomy books at home from the 70's and 80's with some of these exact same pictures in them. NASA Never A Straight Answer
Jo Choto 5 years ago
I find planet/space images so peaceful. I'd buy these images as art in a heartbeat.
mph seti 5 years ago
You can download full res images from NASA/JPL's websites and have them printed. They are free/public domain images. Some of them are large enough to print really well at 8x10" and even larger. Most home printers won't do true fine art quality, but a print shop can and will, if you pay for it and supply them the image(s) on a USB stick.
Load More Replies... katboxjanitor 5 years ago
Incredible to think that humans built the machines that made it all the way out there and we were able to receive all this data.
Brett Connor 5 years ago
These are all FAKE. I have Astronomy books at home from the 70's and 80's with some of these exact same pictures in them. NASA Never A Straight Answer
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