What do you see in Jupiter's turbulent clouds? On Sept. 2, 2021, our Juno mission to Jupiter captured this view of striking cloud bands and swirls in the giant planet’s mid-southern latitudes. The dark, circular vortex near the center of the image is a cyclone that spans roughly 250 miles (about 400 kilometers). The color at its center is likely to be the result of descending winds that cleared out upper-level clouds, revealing darker material below. Citizen scientist Brian Swift used a raw JunoCam image digitally projected onto a sphere to create this view. It has been rotated so that north is up. At the time, the spacecraft was about 16,800 miles (about 27,000 kilometers) above Jupiter’s cloud tops, at a latitude of about 31 degrees south. Image Data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image Processing by Brian Swift © CC BY #Jupiter #JunoCam #NASA #SolarSystem #CitizenScience #Cosmos #PlanetaryViews #SeeingSpots