Zero Degree Photography: NASA, 30 photos of Jupiter taken by NASA

NASA recently shared several new photos of Jupiter taken by the Juno spacecraft.

1. When NASA's Juno spacecraft photographed the planet's atmosphere, the diameter of the Earth was slightly larger than that of Jupiter.

2. This image captures the formation of swirling clouds around Jupiter's south pole, looking upward toward the equatorial region.

3. During its 24th close flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a chaotic, stormy region in the planet's northern hemisphere known as the Folded Filament area. Jupiter has no solid surface, like Earth. Data collected by Juno suggests that some of the giant planet's winds are deeper and longer-lasting than similar atmospheric processes on Earth.

4. NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a large number of rotating clouds in Jupiter's dynamic north temperate zone. Appearing in the scene are several bright white "pop-up" clouds as well as an anticyclonic storm, known as the White Oval.

5. See the Jovian Cloud's striking blue shade in this new view captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

6. On February 17, 2020, NASA's Juno mission captured Jupiter's turbulent northern region as it approached Jupiter.

7. Jupiter's volcanically active moon Io casts the planet's shadow in this dramatic image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. Like a solar eclipse on Earth, people will witness a total solar eclipse when Io passes in front of the sun in the dark circles that pass through Jupiter's cloud tops.

8. This stunning view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it passed closely through the gas giant planet.

9. This image of Jupiter's turbulent southern hemisphere was taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its most recent close flyby of the gas giant on December 21, 2018.

10. This image captures the swirling belts and turbulent whirlpools of Jupiter's northern hemisphere.

11. NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of a region in the Jovian jet that has a very dark center. Nearby, other features show bright, high-elevation clouds that have swollen into sunlight.

12. This view from NASA's Juno spacecraft captures the colorful and complex patterns of a jet stream region known as "Jet N3" in Jupiter's northern hemisphere.

13. There are thick white clouds in the Junocam image of Jupiter's equatorial belt. 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. This image was obtained during Juno's flyby of the natural gas giant on December 16, 2017.

14. A dynamic storm on the southern edge of Jupiter's Arctic region dominates this Jovian cloudscape, courtesy of NASA's Juno spacecraft.

15. 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 a cyclone with a diameter of up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers). Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color and stereoscopic projection.

16. This image of Jupiter's iconic Great Red Spot and surrounding turbulent areas was taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

17. This view of Jupiter's atmosphere from NASA's Juno spacecraft includes something remarkable: two storms caught in a merger.

18. See intricate cloud patterns in Jupiter's northern hemisphere in this new view captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

19. Atmospheric features of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere captured from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The new perspective shows swirling clouds surrounding circular features within a jet stream region known as "Jet N6."

20. Jupiter's southern hemisphere can be seen in detail in this new image taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in "String of Pearls," one of eight massive rotating storms at 40 degrees S (latitude 40 degrees south) on the gas giant.

21. This image of Jupiter's rotating south pole region was taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it neared the completion of its tenth close flyby.

22. Colorful swirling cloud bands dominate Jupiter's southern hemisphere in this image taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

23. This enhanced-color image of a massive storm raging across Jupiter's northern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant.

24. NASA's Juno mission captured this image of Jupiter's southern hemisphere on February 17, 2020, as the spacecraft made its closest approach to the giant planet.

25. Colorful swirling clouds in Jupiter's north equatorial belt nearly fill this image from NASA's Juno spacecraft. This is a recent image of the Jovian Cloud taken during a recent flyby of the gas giant.

26. This image from NASA's Juno spacecraft captures a swirling oval of white clouds in Jupiter's southern temperate belt. Known as White Oval A5, the feature is an anticyclonic storm. An anticyclone is a weather phenomenon in which the winds surrounding a storm move in the opposite direction to the flow of an area of ??low pressure.

27. On May 19, 2017, this photo was taken by Juno Cam aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft at an altitude of 7,990 miles (12,858 kilometers). In the image, bright small clouds dot the entire southern tropical region of Jupiter. Although the bright clouds appear small in the massive Jovian cloudscape, they are actually cloud towers about 30 miles (50 kilometers) wide and 30 miles (50 kilometers) high, casting shadows on the clouds below. On Jupiter, such high clouds are almost certainly composed of water and/or ammonia ice, which may be the source of lightning. This is the first time so many cloud towers have been seen, probably because late afternoon lighting is particularly good at this geometry.

28. This image records the intensity of jets and vortices in Jupiter's northern temperate belt.

29. In this new view captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft, the formation of swirling clouds in the northern region of Jupiter's North Temperate Belt is seen.

30. 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.