SPACE
JUPITER’S SURREAL CLOUDS SWIRL IN ANEW PHOTO
WORDS SAMANTHA MATHEWSON
Vivid clouds swirl across Jupiter’s skies like colourful brush strokes across a painting in a new photo from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The image, taken during the spacecraft’s 61st close flyby of Jupiter on 12 May 2024, hones in on activity in the planet’s northern hemisphere. Juno was approximately 18,000 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops when it captured this new view, highlighting the planet’s persistent storms and colourful cloud bands created by strong winds in its atmosphere.