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Our Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter’s blue southern pole on Dec. 11, 2016. This image was taken from an altitude of about 32,400 miles (52,200 kilometers) above the planet’s cloud tops.

The equatorial region of Jupiter appears as neat belts of stormy turbulence. Toward its poles, however, the organized chaos devolves into a mix of clouds and air streams.

Juno left Earth to study Jupiter back in 2011, arriving at the gas giant in 2016. Ever since, it has been observing the planet and its many moons, learning about the planet, our solar system, and gas giants across the universe.

Image description: A swipethrough of Jupiter’s south pole framed by black space. It appears as a semicircle of spots and swirling, filamentous clouds. They are a rich, deep blue in the center, bleeding into orange and then tan around its rim.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Image processing by Gabriel Fiset (CC-BY)

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