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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 / @astropartigirl.bsky.social)
Wide angle shot of planet Jupiter, spanning many of its cloud bands and part of the south polar hood region.
September 17, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Ventsislav Dimitrov)
Photo of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes, displaying the polar hood with its distinctly bluer colouration. Multiple storms are spread throughout the view.
September 16, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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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.
September 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Trevor J. Brown)
Wide-angle view of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes, featuring the colour contrast between different parts of the planet's cloudtops.
September 16, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Hunter-Nacho")
Image depicting Jupiter's southern hemisphere cloudtops, with multiple storm systems in various shapes, sizes and colours spread throughout the planet.
September 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @kevinmgill.bsky.social)
Close-up view of the planet Jupiter, showing remarkable detail in some of its very turbulent storm clouds.
September 15, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / David Conrad)
Close-up view of a large anticyclonic storm on the planet Jupiter, known as the Great Red Spot.
September 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Landonloertscher-54")
Southern view of planet Jupiter, displaying some of its cloud bands and the giant storm dubbed the Great Red Spot.
September 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "robulaz")
Photo of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, spanning the area between the polar hood up to near its equator. A string of four bright oval storms are particularly prominent in the tropics, with countless other smaller storms present throughout the rest of the clouds.
September 14, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Matteo Vacca)
Photo of Jupiter's cloudtops, where some storm systems are visible. Of particular note are two bright oval storms separated by an elongated, dark system.
September 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "ValkyrieKitty")
Picture of Jupiter's higher latitudes, showing the area between the subtropics and the polar hood region, with lots of turbulence across the area.
September 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Mubdirahman-98")
Wide view of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, showing its bluish-coloured polar hood and a string of 6 bright oval storms closer to the equator.
September 14, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Aviral Mishra)
Photo depicting Jupiter's polar region, including the blue-green area around the pole and some of the cloud bands surrounding that.
September 13, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Shannon Haggarty)
Photo of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes, showing an abundance of turbulent storms between the planet's south pole and its tropics.
September 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @andrealuck.bsky.social)
Detailed close-up view of Jupiter's cloudtops, featuring the turbulence in the planet's atmosphere and a few storm systems.
September 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt)
Wide angle view of Jupiter's northernmost latitudes. The planet's polar hood region is distinctly featured with its blue-green colour.
September 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Kristian Hollund)
Photo of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, showing part of the polar hood and multiple cloud bands.
September 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Amphitrite-04")
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.
September 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Mark Illsley)
Image of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, centred near its south pole. A few cloud bands are visible surrounding the polar hood, with multiple turbulent storm systems spread around the area.
September 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik)
Image of Jupiter's temperate latitude cloudtops. Varying amounts of turbulence is seen present in different places of the planet's cloud bands.
September 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "hana0rain")
Image depicting Jupiter's southern hemisphere cloudtops, with multiple storm systems in various shapes, sizes and colours spread throughout the planet.
September 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Ben Robbins)
A photo taken nearby one of Jupiter's poles, with the area nearest the pole having bluer colouration versus a yellower tint elsewhere. Multiple storms and cloud swirls of different shapes and sizes are visible.
September 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Bipradeep Saha)
Picture of Jupiter's mid latitudes, displaying some of its cloud bands and their variation in colour and turbulence.
September 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Shawn Handran)
Picture of Jupiter's northernmost latitudes, displaying countless turbulent storm systems in the area nearest the pole.
September 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott)
Detailed view of Jupiter's northernmost latitudes, displaying the widespread turbulence across the planet's northern polar hood region.
September 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM