2 Huge storms on Jupiter
Taken by Peter Rosén on January 10, 2025 @
Central Stockholm, Sweden
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On the 11th of November of 2024 a storm broke out in Jupiters South Equatorial Belt (SEB). It started as a tiny bright dot and grew in size and force over the months. Its moving pattern mimics the waves on the wake side of the Great Red Spot (GRS).
While it continued to extend, another storm named "NTBs jet-stream outbreak" appeared 2 month later on the10th of January of 2025. It looks like a comet rampaging around the planet at 650 km/h (400 miles/h) while gobbling gases from nearby regions and leaving them with big scars.
At top of the map (animation 2), there is a huge brownish cyclone looking like a worm called a barge
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia24974-juno-dives-deep-into-a-brown-barge/ . They can be quite stable for long periods of time but after the storm passes by, the barge is litteraly obliterated and fades away.
These storms are still active today, 8 month later.
I started collecting thousands of amateur images during 3 month and have since painstakingly remaped them so I could create 68 complete cylindrical projections which have been the base to create these animations. Absolutely no AI has been used. It is more like putting together a 5000 pieces puzzle but you first have to construct every piece manually one by one!
The file size limit of 20Mb here on SpaceWeather has made me reduce the size and skip the first half of my original animations.
In the first animation you see 3 simultaneous "telescopic" views of Jupiter rotating, from 3 viewpoints in space separated by 120°. Whatever goes over the right rim appears on the left side of the next planetary view.
The last images shows how the NTBs jet-stream outbreak extends tentacles into the white ovals in the NEB region and severely scars its borders.
This is my second project and still in the making, as a contribution to the Mission Juno Pro-Am collaboration. The first one was produced 8 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZc1Y662jtk ).
I want to thank all the skilled amateurs from around the world who upload their fantastic images to mainly PVOL and ALPO Japan and who make projects like this possible.
/*Peter R
Photographer's website:
https://pixmix_photo on Instagram
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