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Juno completed the fifth such maneuver on March 27, recording a fresh batch of images and streaming that raw data back to Earth - and now amateur astronomers are beginning to turn the gray, unprocessed photos into brilliant full-color images.

Here are a handful of our favorite shots from the fifth orbit, plus a few other images from previous flybys that space fans have recently uploaded to Juno's website.

This new image, processed by amateur astronomer Roman Tkachenko, shows Jupiter's north pole in all its stormy glory:

Another person processed the same raw image to show more green-coloured details:

And here's a close-up of Jupiter's swirling cloud tops:

This shot, put together by Gervasio Robles, merges three Juno flyby images to show Jupiter's elusive south pole in full view:

 

[nhlducks35]

My god

 

[titiklabingapat]

Fantastic images. It still blows my mind that these are hundreds of millions of miles away (give or take a few hundred million miles)

 

[Staal]

Damn that's beautiful.

 

[Escape Goat]

Looks like some space amoeba

 

[Deleted member 80556]

Looks incredible close up.

 

[zero_suit]

Simply stunning.

 

[Derwind]

I want to get a tattoo of Jupiter's storm/hurricane patterns.

 

[Rad-]

Dayum.

 

[frontovik]

I think I saw that before in a month old coffee mug.

 

[Stinkles]

My god

it's full of stars.

 

[Protein]

People are going to shit their pants when Jupiter turns out to be a dormant space amoeba and starts feeding on other planets.


Soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs

 

[Host Samurai]

People are going to shit their pants when Jupiter turns out to be a dormant space amoeba and starts feeding on other planets.

Than we nuke Jupiter....if thats even possible.

 

[eggandI]

Looks like a whole bunch of gas

 

[BizzyBum]

Jupiter's a pretty cool planet, without it we'd probably be dead a long time ago from asteroid impacts.

 

[TheGameshark]

Amazing. Still blows me away that we can get images like this that are taken so far away.

 

[Luminaire]

Terrifyingly beautiful.

 

[Seiniyta]

It's hard to imagine a place so large and yet entirely devoid of life (as far as we know). And that being the case for possibly trillions upon trillions of other planets swirling around their sun with only the occasional observer from far, far away briefly stopping, cataloging the solar system and it's planets before moving on.

 

[Buzzman]

The probe would be wise to refrain from sight-seeing and stick to its job.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Jupiter is the coolest planet. I wonder if we'll see below the surface in our lifetime.

Despite how hard it is to create these conditions here on Earth, Jupiter is so extremely massive that it probably has an entire ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen deep underneath its cloudy exterior. Incredibly, if scientists are right, it would be the largest ocean in our solar system.

An entire ocean of something we can barely produce here on Earth! Turns out pretty crazy things happen when something is surrounded by the weight of 130,000 cars in every direction!

Show me this.

 

[superdeluxe]

Amazing

 

[Alienous]

This is some Giygas creepiness.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

Than we nuke Jupiter....if thats even possible.

We should nuke it just for science. To see how it affects the storms

Spoiler

all pics of Jupiter is like "dam abstract painters"

 

[GK86]

Jupiter is the coolest planet. I wonder if we'll see below the surface in our lifetime.


Show me this.

We might. Juno is taking a swan dive into the planet when it completes its mission (February 2018).

 

[BizzyBum]

Amazing. Still blows me away that we can get images like this that are taken so far away.

I just wish space travel was more common. Born too soon yadda yadda.

Playing Mass Effect: Andromeda (disappointing) but it would be awesome to be apart of something like that. Maybe not going to another galaxy, but just have the technology to explore and survey other solar systems in the Milky Way, charting golden worlds and creating colonies for human expansion.

 

[JasonUresti]

Than we nuke Jupiter....if thats even possible.

Well, you could throw the Earth at Jupiter and the big guy would tank the hit just fine. Our little nuclear weapons would barely register in it's atmosphere

 

[i-Lo]

The surface reminds me of moving patterns of colours the surface of bubbles.

People are going to shit their pants when Jupiter turns out to be a dormant space amoeba and starts feeding on other planets.


Soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs

Jupiter could some good ol' Murrican freedom.

 

[Escape Goat]

We should nuke it just for science. To see how it affects the storms

Spoiler

all pics of Jupiter is like "dam abstract painters"

What do you think that would tell us?

 

[Madness]

Amazing....look how much the flyby of Pluto changed our view of the planet. It was a low bitrate ball and now we have clear photos that even show craters. Imagine if instead of $54 billion to an already bloated US military, we increased NASA's budget by just $5 billion.

 

[Irishmantis]

How come no space has clouds like this?
That will actually move dynamically

Half pun intended but they look so out of this World

 

[Head of Vengarl]

God I love space pictures.

 

[Litan]

Looks like art.

 

[chrisPjelly]

Jupiter is fat

 

[smurfx]

Jupiter's a pretty cool planet, without it we'd probably be dead a long time ago from asteroid impacts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5oD-oxIb04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9cQdpoNY4M


it might actually be our enemy as well.

 

[Santiako]

Beautiful, looks like Van Gogh painted it.

 

[Prototype Viktor]

What do you think that would tell us?

That global warming doesn't exist on gas giants so it can't exist here! Also maybe create a new Red Spot and sell it as ad space to 7Up

 

[Himynameischris]

Damn those are amazing shots,

 

[Escape Goat]

Damn those are amazing shots,

The real money shot will come when we probe Uranus.

 

[Nordicus]

I think I saw that before in a month old coffee mug.

From my experience, this is actually really, really accurate. Particularly the South pole image

 

[GK86]

Jupiter is fat

So we planet shaming now? Smh.

 

[DrFunk]

But how does Jupiter sound?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

I'm legit almost crying at how beautiful these images are and the wonder they bring with them.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

The real money shot will come when we probe Uranus.

 

[Ether_Snake]

God I love space pictures.

Hey the cat in the back is Charlie Chaplin.

 

[LookAtMeGo]

Beautiful. Cant wait until we send humans there to colonize it.

 

[Tom_Cody]

Brilliant stuff.

 

[Chronoja]

Then we nuke Jupiter....if thats even possible.

Jupiter has shrugged off worse than anything we could ever throw at it

The Shoemaker-Levy 9 Comet impact

"Over the next six days, 21 distinct impacts were observed, with the largest coming on July 18 at 07:33 UTC when fragment G struck Jupiter. This impact created a giant dark spot over 12,000 km across, and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6,000,000 megatons of TNT (600 times the world's nuclear arsenal)"

 

[CreepingFear]

Hey the cat in the back is Charlie Chaplin.

Or Hitler.

 

[Nathan_Drake]

Nobody show flat earth believers.

 

[Marvie_3]

Amazing. Space pics are always interesting