The storms on Jupiter are always brewing. Cloud formations made of ammonia, hydrocarbons and water swirl in a frigid soup of hydrogen and helium. Fingers of thick haze thousands of kilometers across feel their way around the planet, with various bands of the atmosphere circling at different speeds. Depending on their size, these churning clouds can last from a few days to hundreds of years. To create this image, citizen scientist Kevin Gill processed the camera's raw data, combining three images representing red, green and blue, and enhancing the color. It looks like it was taken with a fisheye lens, but this panorama effect was actually the result of the spacecraft's rotation
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