Stunning photo by NASA of Jupiter's clouds

[Nevilledog]

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[3auld6phart]

1. Wow!

Weird and beautiful. Almost like tripping on LSD.

[lunatica]

2. You can't beat nature for spectacular beauty.

[world wide wally]

3. Van Gogh?

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Maybe he was a Time Lord and had seen this before he began painting

[FM123]

4. Even more beautiful than I could have ever imagined.....

[nattyice]

5. Is this the visible spectrum? Or more?

[jpak]

6. Heavy

Yup

[panader0]

8. Three layers of Jupiter's clouds; one is ammonia, then ammonia & sulfur, then H2O.

Very cool to see....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter

[Nevilledog]

13. More beauty

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[ProfessorGAC]

19. Picking A Nit!

That next layer is ammonia & hydrogen sulfide (H2S), not sulfur. Sulfur is a solid even here on earth.
Also, there's a fair amount of methane (CH4) in the top 80% of the atmosphere. As we go down, the pressure is sufficient to condense methane into liquid, so it "rains" down onto even lower levels of hypercritical fluid gasses.
Sorry for the nitpicking. Retired physical organic chemist here!

[Throckmorton]

23. I don't consider it nitpicking.

I think of it as a reconciliation and amplification of the stated information with the authenticated facts. I wondered about the Sulfur too, and I am just a lowly MSEE.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. A PhysOrg Chemist...

...that doesn't know the thermodynamics of methane is required to return all their diplomas! I didn't want to risk it!

[panader0]

28. Thanks prof, you have the knowledge.

I really don't know much on that subject, I just wanted to flesh out the fantastic pics.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Did You See My Other Reply To The OP

Given the density of those gasses, that much cloud turbulence is only possible if the winds are HUNDREDS of mph!
That is one aggressive atmosphere!

[Hoyt]

9. Looks like Hell. I see people screaming.

[Chainfire]

11. Any MAGA hats?

[Chainfire]

10. Don't know why, there's not sun up in the sky, stormy weather.

Its a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

[electric_blue68]

12. Oh, beautiful. Reminds me of 'Zooming the Mandelbrot Set' !

Which if you want see something visually
***extroidinary*** go put that phrase on to a search engine. 🙂👍

I'm a visual artist - trust me while I've never taken LSD
it feels like it when I see this math based digital phenomenon.

[Hekate]

14. KnR..........

[Bucky]

15. You can fit a whole continent in each of those swirls

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Given The Density Of Those Gasses...

...the structures seen here would require some hellacious winds!
The surface is very cold & the immense gravity make those gasses very dense, so there is billions of tons just in this pic.
To achieve turbulence, the forces need to be massive!!!!

[bucolic_frolic]

17. That's got nothing on Munch's "The Scream"

[Warpy]

18. I fully agree about unmanned scientific space travel

Let the billionaires risk their asses on space tourism Competing for Darwin Awards will add to the body of knowledge.

We have a long way to go before manned space travel and off planet colonies are possible, at all.

[Martin68]

20. I don't think funding space travel to Jupiter would make any sense at all. Far better to send

sophisticated sensor and camera packages to send us information. Space travel to Mars, a planet we could actually land on and walk around on is still a daunting challenge. Jupiter is much farther away, and there's no "land" to land on. Can you imagine spending 6 months or more inside a small space capsule for the opportunity to orbit around Jupiter?

[aeromanKC]

21. Looks like the cover of one of my Moody Blues albums!!

[jalan48]

22. Like an Edvard Munch painting.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Ammonia, sulpher hurricanes/vortexes? Very interesting, and beautiful from this vantage point. nt

[Martin Eden]

26. The Soul of Van Gogh went to Jupiter

His art is on display there, is it not?

[bearssoapbox]

27. Back in the 70's some friends came to our house and we colored Easter eggs.

It was that coloring that was oil based and and some of us were on LSD. I remember seeing swirls in the liquid that looked like faces but in many colors.

Didn't see faces on the eggs, it just looked like the eggs had been tie dyed.

[Maru Kitteh]

30. It looks like glass sculpture.

Just, WOW.

[Demovictory9]

31. amazing