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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 / @mcnees.bsky.social)
Photo of a storm on Jupiter named the Great Red Spot and its surroundings. This storm is larger than the Earth.
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Alejandro Diaz D.)
Image depicting Jupiter's southern hemisphere cloudtops, with multiple storm systems in various shapes, sizes and colours spread throughout the planet.
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Jenikhollan-50")
Photo of Jupiter taken high above its cloudtops, showing multiple cloud bands with countless storm systems spread throughout them all.
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Melena Spellman Smith)
Image of Jupiter's mid-latitude cloudtops. Varying amounts of turbulence is seen present in different places of the planet's cloud bands.
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Don E. Miller)
Wide angle view of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes. The planet's polar hood region is distinctly featured with its blue-green colour and circumpolar storms.
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Julli Fonseca)
Photo of Jupiter's cloudtops, showing the region around the Great Red Spot — a giant anticyclonic storm that's bigger than the whole Earth.
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Stefano Ivan Stinga)
Medium angle view of a section of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, prominently featuring three bright oval-shaped storms. Other less distinct turbulent storms are present across the visible atmosphere.
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Aningan")
Narrow angle shot of the Great Red Spot and its surrounding regions on Jupiter. The GRS is a single storm on Jupiter that's bigger than Earth.
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Sandeep Prasad)
Photo of one of Jupiter's subtropics, including part of the polar area with its distinct colour. Multiple storm systems are distributed everywhere.
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt)
Detailed close-up shot of the turbulent cloudtops of Jupiter's northern tropical zone.
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik)
Image of the planet Jupiter, showing its Great Red Spot and other storm systems near it, as well as some of the planet's cloud bands.
February 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Elly-17")
Photo of Jupiter mainly featuring one very turbulent storm system tens of thousands of kilometres in length in one of the planet's subtropical areas. A couple cloud bands can be seen underneath the storm system, themselves containing other storms of various shapes.
February 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @laura-martin.bsky.social)
Close-up view of Jupiter's cloudtops, showing the turbulence in the planet's atmosphere.
February 9, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Crystal McConnell)
Photo of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, showing part of the polar hood and multiple cloud bands.
February 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Terry Riopka)
Close-up view of a few storm systems on Jupiter. A notable very round one is seen near the bottom right.
February 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Nuno de Sá Teixeira)
Wide angle view of Jupiter's southern hemisphere. Many of the planets cloud bands are displayed, with violently turbulent flow present where pairs of them meet.
February 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott)
Close-up photo of the cloudtops across Jupiter's higher northern latitudes, featuring the distinctly blue-green colours present in the planet's polar areas.
February 8, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Noriaki Okamoto)
Photo of a storm on Jupiter named the Great Red Spot and its surrounding areas.
February 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @kevinmgill.bsky.social / Navaneeth Krishnan S.)
Image of the planet Jupiter, showing its Great Red Spot and other storm systems near it, as well as some of the planet's cloud bands.
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Matej Porubčan)
Close-up photo of Jupiter's Great Red Spot (an anticyclone bigger than Earth) and its surroundings.
February 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Mike Hall)
Photo of Jupiter's Great Red Spot - an anticyclonic storm bigger than Earth - and the cloud bands in its surrounding areas.
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @astrogbae.bsky.social)
Wide-angle photo of Jupiter's subtropical latitudes, with part of the polar region visible. An extensive turbulent storm system is seen between the subtropical area and the polar hood.
February 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @bjornjonsson.bsky.social)
An enhanced, map-projected mosaic of two JunoCam images, showing a few of Jupiter's southern cloud bands. Oval BA (a large, white anticyclone) is visible above center at left.
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @emmywalimaki.bsky.social)
A photo taken above one of Jupiter's polar regions, with striking colour contrast (blue near the pole, brown farther away). Numerous extremely turbulent clouds and storms are seen throughout.
February 6, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Karl Hutchinson)
Close-up picture of Jupiter's cloudtops, featuring the turbulent wake left by a moving storm system.
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM