A Recent Storm On Jupiter — Taken By Juno, NASA's Spacecraft (1 Viewer)

[Laron]

Here's a color-enhanced photograph of a very large storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. It was taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on October the 24th during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant planet.

At the time Juno was about 6,281 miles (10,108 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds on Jupiter. The spatial scale in this image is 6.7 kilometers/pixel (4.2 miles/pixel).

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/ Seán Doran
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That's a pretty amazing shot! But so is this one below.

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/ Seán Doran
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The above shot was also captured by Juno that day — the Jovian clouds in shades of blue. The Juno craft took this one while only 18,906 kilometers (11,747 miles) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds, which is about as far as the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia.

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Source 1 & 2.

 

[Lila]

Scale is such a funny thing sometimes

I look at this and it could be one of Jupiter's storms (as it is) but equally, it could be the pattern on a rock I find as I traipse along a path on Earth. That rock could be huge, encompassing an entire area or small enough to hold in my hand.
Alternatively, it could be a swirling pattern in a plasma, either the size of a galaxy or stars forming or able to fit in a small lab someplace not far from where I live.
Then again, I could be looking into my bowl of breakfast with blueberry blue swirling into the milk as I stir...

Same/similar pattern, different scale. So cool

(Oh, and thanks for posting something that rated a 'jaw-dropping' icon)

 

[Snowmelt]

God... the artist who painted that must be on a winning wicket!

Added: When I view the photos taken by Juno, the artist in me gets excited. Just like slathering on the paint.

 

[Alain]

it surely is impressive jupiter and his storms, but that color i hadn't seen before

one thing for sure if one didn't need atmopshere to life and who wind didn't impact it can be quite a creepy experience to wander there

 

[Carl]

Scale is such a funny thing sometimes

Agree! It reminds me of a scene in the British series "UFO" I saw in my youth, when the main character (Striker?) was talking precisely about this issue and to demonstrate his point he showed a shot in a screen of what another person said immediately that it was obviously the Moon's surface. The main character made the camera move back a bit and everybody saw that it was really a close up of the leg of a lovely lady.

 

[Laron]

one thing for sure if one didn't need atmopshere to life and who wind didn't impact it can be quite a creepy experience to wander there

I think that's an interesting thought to think, and imagine. Just imagine looking up at those swirly clouds above you, which are so expansive covering the ceiling of the sky in all surrounds!