The Beauty of Jupiter Caught as Many Storms Rage near the planet's north pole.

This latest image from Juno shows a number of vortices raging around the planet's North pole , NASA say the vortices can extend some 30 miles deep and span hundreds of miles across.

Figuring out how they form is key to understanding Jupiter's atmosphere, as well as the fluid dynamics and cloud chemistry that create the planet's other atmospheric features. Scientists are particularly interested in the vortices' varying shapes, sizes, and colors. For example, cyclones, which spin counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern, and anti-cyclones, which rotate clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere, exhibit very different colors and shapes.
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Pretty sure my uncle had some wallpaper just like that in the 70s.

They need to probe that beautiful thing, I am trembling to know what lies deep inside.
That sounded strange.. but dammit can we please pepper that thing with thick shielded probes already.
I heard rumors of a solid core, acid rain and diamonds.

I just love your threads Gortex and really appreciate your perseverance to bring us information outside of our tiny circle of life.

Very beautiful scene but I'm sure like many things, beautiful on the outside and really dangerous on the inside.

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Very beautiful scene but I'm sure like many things, beautiful on the outside and really dangerous on the inside.

In the 90s scientists worked out that wind speeds in vortices on Jupiter are around 900 mph , so yeah that would take more than the roof off your house.

Better outside than in.

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That storm that looks like a skill saw blade is very cool...

I wish they had that one storm (center - right) more in the frame. Looks pretty cyclic in form... If the right side looks like the left side... It almost looks like a tunnel.

Those storms almost look like something is harvesting gas from the surface of the planet... A big vacuum or something... lol

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Pretty sure my uncle had some wallpaper just like that in the 70s.

Groovy

Thanks for sharing the photo

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I wish they had that one storm (center - right) more in the frame.

Agreed , don't know whether it's blown itself out or it's a different type of storm , it definitely looks more diffuse.

originally posted by: Spacespider
They need to probe that beautiful thing, I am trembling to know what lies deep inside.
That sounded strange.. but dammit can we please pepper that thing with thick shielded probes already.
I heard rumors of a solid core, acid rain and diamonds.

Diamonds?

Lucy in the sky?

or

Lucy in disguise? (with glasses)

The storms are formed as nature's way to vent the heat from the planet's surface, just as they are formed on earth's surface to vent heat from the planet's surface. Heat up the earth's surface a little more and it is gonna be no picnic that is for sure.

We are already seeing increased storm intensity and size because of the warming of earth's surface. I wonder if we are going to get to a point where this prophecy is literally going to come true:

“On the earth anguish of nations not knowing the way out because of the roaring of the sea and its agitation."-Luke 21:25.

Good pictures. Have you seen the new picture of Jupiter from the JWST? Quite a beauty. Even the ring of Jupiter is visible.

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omg.. that picture is just perfect. Is that new ?

originally posted by: Spacespider
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omg.. that picture is just perfect. Is that new ?

Pretty new.

originally posted by: Lazarus Short

originally posted by: Spacespider
They need to probe that beautiful thing, I am trembling to know what lies deep inside.
That sounded strange.. but dammit can we please pepper that thing with thick shielded probes already.
I heard rumors of a solid core, acid rain and diamonds.

Diamonds?

Lucy in the sky?

or

Lucy in disguise? (with glasses)

Yes please

a reply to: Spacespider

They were released after the main images were released by the Webb team on the 12th as a bonus release.

Is that a moon bottom left of the pic?

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a reply to: Dalamax

Yes , it's Europa.

Clearly visible at left is Europa, a moon with a probable ocean below its thick icy crust, and the target of NASA’s forthcoming Europa Clipper mission. What’s more, Europa’s shadow can be seen to the left of the Great Red Spot. Other visible moons in these images include Thebe and Metis.
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Beautiful, thank you for posting

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Reminds me very much of Starry Night by Van Gogh

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Interesting, I wonder if the vortices have extreme temperature differences and what would cause potential temperature differences within them.

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Reminds me of Van Gogh

That Starry night was the Pleiades

OP probably meant this one.

The Langlois Bridge at Arles is the subject of four oil paintings, one watercolor and four drawings by Vincent van Gogh. The works, made in 1888 when Van Gogh lived in Arles, in southern France, represent a melding of formal and creative.

Great post gortex. BTW, that's Jupiter's hydrogen atmosphere we're looking down into, that's why it's blue.

A few years back they released a 3D visualisation of similar storms, taken in infrared: www.youtube.com...


So I took a screenshot and adjusted the colours to approximate what it would look like to our eyes: