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JunoCam Images

The Juno mission's visible-light camera, JunoCam, has captured unprecedented pictures of Jupiter's poles, cloud-tops, and moons, as well as the public's attention, imagination, and assistance. From the start, the Juno team invited the public to help choose worthwhile research targets, to process, analyze, and play with raw images, and to produce breathtaking works of science and art.

This image shows two of Jupiter's large rotating storms, captured by Juno's visible-light imager, JunoCam, passing over the planet on...
👁 Two large swirling storms are interacting with each other – one is a long oval in the upper half of the image, stretching from upper left toward lower right, and below that is a more circular storm filling the lower left of the frame. The perimeter of the oval storm is a light gray ribbon of clouds showing the storm is swirling counterclockwise. Its interior is made of many small swirls of dark gray and brownish-gray. The perimeter of the circular storm below is dark gray-blue, swirling clockwise, while its interior is light gray and appears much more uniform and calm than the rest of the scene, except for tiny white clouds poking up from its surface, casting shadows. The rest of the scene is a commotion of light gray, light brown, and gray-blue eddys, showing the interaction between the two storms, looking like a stick had been swirled through a muddy pool.