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PIA25069: Earth's Ocean and Jupiter's Atmosphere (Animation)
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of striking cloud bands and swirls in the giant planet's mid-southern latitudes.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Juno 
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  JunoCam 
 Product Size:  1600 x 1200 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA25069.tif (5.762 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA25069.jpg (310.8 kB)  

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This morphing animation compares the eddies in Earth's oceans to the turbulent clouds in Jupiter's atmosphere.

In the movie, a zoom occurs around a vortex dipole: a typical structure consisting of a cyclone and an anticyclone that is present both in Earth's ocean and Jupiter's atmosphere.

The ocean image showing the spring phytoplankton bloom in the southern Gulf of Bothnia was generated from data collected by the MODIS instrument about NASA's Aqua satellite. The Jupiter image is from JunoCam.

Scientist Lia Siegelman observed the similarities between the richness of turbulence around Joviancyclones and the filaments around smaller eddies seen in Earth's oceans. These similarities were especially evident in high-resolution satellite images of plankton blooms.

More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt (Jupiter image)
NASA OBPG OB.DAAC/GSFC/Landsat 8/Gerald Eichstädt (Ocean image)

Image Addition Date:
2022-01-18