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Pictures of Jupiter's northern hemisphere by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in true-color (left) and false-color (right).
These bands of clouds move in opposite directions (eastward and westward).
The dark purple is a dark haze. Light blue clouds are high and thin, deeper clouds are reddish and white clouds are high and thick.
An exaggerated color photograph of Jupiter's equatorial zone. The exaggerated colors make details more clearly visible.
The smallest features you can make out on this photograph are 190 kilometers across.
Light bands on the atmosphere of Jupiter is called zones and the dark bands are called belts.
Picture of the wind patterns in Jupiter's equatorial region. This picture covers an area of 34,000 kilometers by 22,000 kilometers.
The large dark area is a 'hotspot'. This picture shows the layer of clouds visible to the human eye.
Zones next to each other on Jupiter blow in opposite directions - some eastwards the others westwards.
The upper area of this picture is within Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt, and it blows westward (to the left).
The lower area of this picture shows a part of the Equatorial Zone, it moves eastward (to the right)
Four pictures of Jupiter's northern equatorial belt taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. These pictures were taken at different wavelengths. These pictures show different layers of clouds on Jupiter.
The picture at the top shows the lower, underlying atmosphere of Jupiter.
The second picture shows the higher clouds - those visible to us.
The third picture shows methane. The darkest areas has the most methane present in it.
The last picture shows high altitude hazes (in white).
All images credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
