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Bits of Jupiter
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Images from NASA's Juno probe, processed by citizen scientists. Credits in text, descriptions in alt. Inspired by the late Bits of Pluto Twitter account. Trans rights!

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Bits of Jupiter @jupiterbits.bsky.social · Feb 13
Now fully set up! Posts should be coming out every 6 hours — if you're in the credits of a featured image and wish to no longer have your @ pinged when that happens (or vice-versa), please let me know! Do note though that the same name won't get used more than once a week to avoid excessive pinging.
jupiterbits.bsky.social Bits of Jupiter @jupiterbits.bsky.social · Feb 7
Posts will be a little haphazard as I try moving workflow from Xitter to here — in the meantime, thank you to everyone who's already followed from there to here 🙇
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @mikpetter.bsky.social)
Picture of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (a large anticyclone bigger than Earth) and its surrounding areas.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @bjornjonsson.bsky.social)
This picture, taken high above Jupiter's subtropics, displays two distinct sections of different colours, each containing countless turbulent clouds and storms.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Matt Brealey / @theseaning.bsky.social)
Image of a storm system on Jupiter over ten thousand kilometres long, displaying loads of turbulence and varying textures among the clouds.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Heraldo Mauch)
Taken above Jupiter's northern hemisphere near its subtropics, this photo exhibits countless oval-shaped storms and a turbulent blue region nearest the north pole. The individual storms have multiple colours and some are very elongated.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt)
Picture of Jupiter's northernmost latitudes, showing the distinct blue-green colouration of its polar hood, as well as multiple turbulent storm systems within it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Dax Smith)
Photo of Jupiter displaying the area around its Great Red Spot - a centuries-old anticyclone that could fit the entire planet Earth within it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @kevinmgill.bsky.social / Navaneeth Krishnan S.)
Detailed shot of Jupiter's cloudtops, showcasing the turbulence and variance in colour across the planet's atmosphere.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Aa'ishah Verney)
Picture of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes, centred near the south pole. Some cloud bands are seen surrounding the polar hood, with a string of five bright oval storms are of particular note near the edge of the visible region.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Mohammad Ranjbaran)
Wide view of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, featuring its giant anticyclone known as the Great Red Spot.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott)
Picture of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes, including its distinctly blue-green polar hood and some of the cloud bands surrounding it. Countless storm systems can be seen throughout the area.
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tom Momary)
Close-up view of the Great Red Spot and a bit of the area surrounding it. The GRS is a massive storm on Jupiter that's bigger than all of Earth.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @emmywalimaki.bsky.social)
Photo of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes, showing some very turbulent clouds where different cloud bands meet, as well as some circular, vortex storms.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "slrlw")
Close-up view of a massive storm system on Jupiter dubbed the Great Red Spot.
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Janderson Silva)
Picture of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter (a massive storm that could engulf Earth) and its surrounding areas.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Sandeep Prasad)
Photo taken high above Jupiter's south subtropics. The stark colour contrast between the polar region and the rest of the """surface"" is notable. Countless storm systems of different shapes, sizes and levels of turbulence are present, each being multiple thousands of km in size.
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Matthew McDonald)
Picture of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes, including its distinctly blue-green polar hood and some of the cloud bands surrounding it. Countless storm systems can be seen throughout the area.
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Wiggins-69")
Photo of Jupiter, displaying the blue-tinted region around one of its poles and the various storms within it. Nice
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Mohammad Fathi)
Wide-angle picture of Jupiter's high north latitudes, including the area bordering the blue-green polar hood and the large storm systems across the area.
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Don E. Miller)
Close-up view of Jupiter's mid-latitudes, showcasing three or four distinct cloud bands, the one closest to the camera having lots of turbulence and storm systems.
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Morpurgo-35")
A view from above Jupiter's southern hemisphere, with a large portion of the planet visible, including the Great Red Spot and multiple cloud bands of contrasting colours. The region around the south pole has a unique blue colour not present elsewhere in the image. Many circular storms and lots of turbulence can be seen.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Roberto Ibarra)
Photo of Jupiter's mid southern latitudes, displaying countless turbulent storm systems across some of the planet's cloud bands.
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @cosmosidewalk.bsky.social)
Close-up image of the planet Jupiter, showing some of the turbulent storm features on the planet's cloudtops.
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "HuaiDan")
Wide-angle view of the planet Jupiter, showcasing its cloudtops and turbulent atmosphere.
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tom Gwilym)
Photo of the Great Red Spot, on Jupiter, and its surrounding regions. The GRS is a centuries-old storm which is larger than all of Earth.
November 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Michael Galindo)
Close-up view of a region in Jupiter's subtropics, featuring very turbulent flow and a large vortex-type storm near the centre of the view.
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM