The photo garnered over one million likes on Instagram.
The US space agency NASA on Sunday shared a striking image of our solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter. On Instagram, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the Juno spacecraft took the photo as it completed its 43rd flyby of Jupiter over the planet’s north pole in July 2022.
“The JunoCam instrument captured the striking sight of eddies — hurricane-like spiral wind patterns — near Jupiter’s north pole,” the space agency said.
Take a look below:
The picture shows Jupiter’s storms in shades of blue and white. They appear in large swirling patterns with wavy patterns coming out between the circles.
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Shared just a few hours ago, the photo has already garnered over one million likes. Netizens flooded the comment section with love and fire emoticons. While some users called the photo “stunning”, others called it “beautiful”.
One user compared the image of Jupiter to Vincent van Gogh’s famous Starry Night painting and asked: “Starry Night… is that you.” Another said: “This is literally so stunning.”
A third commented: “Jupiter was painted by Van Gogh”, while a fourth added: “Absolutely amazing!”
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In the caption, NASA said that citizen scientist Brian Swift created the enhanced color and contrast view of vortices using raw JunoCam data. At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 25,100 kilometers above Jupiter’s cloud tops, the space agency said.
He also added that Jupiter’s powerful storms can be over 50 kilometers high and hundreds of miles across. “Without a solid surface to slow them down, storms can last for years and have winds of up to 335 miles per hour (539 km/h),” the post’s headline reads.
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