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  1. NASA's Webb Reveals New Details, Mysteries in Jupiter's Aurora

    May 12, 2025Release ID: 2025-108 Missions: Webb

    Webb sees the aurora flickering, fluctuating, and undulating at Jupiter’s north pole.

    Three panels show the top of a planet in shades of orange. A bright ribbon wraps around the planet's pole. Inside the circle formed by the ribbon is a more mottled area. Below the ribbon, the planet is much darker.

  2. NASA's Hubble Celebrates Decade of Tracking Outer Planets

    December 09, 2024Release ID: 2024-010 Missions: Hubble, STScI

    Hubble Space Telescope Keeps a Vigilant Eye on Weather on Other Worlds

    A montage of Hubble views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune taken from 2014 to 2024 by the OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) program. Upper-left toward center: The hazy white polar cap on the three teal-colored Uranus images appears more face-on as the planet approaches northern summer. Center-right to far-center right: Three images of the blue planet Neptune show the coming and going of clouds as the Sun's radiation level changes. Seven views of yellow-brown Saturn stretch across the mosaic center in a triangle, show the tilt of the ring plane relative to the view from Earth, from left to right from an oblique angle to nearly edge-on, with colorful changes to bands of clouds in the turbulent atmosphere. Bottom center: Three Jupiter images spanning nearly a decade form a triangle. Notable changes are seen in Jupiter's colorful white and brown striped cloud structure. The Great Red Spot, seen at southern latitudes, is prominent in each photo.

  3. NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball

    October 09, 2024Release ID: 2024-011 Missions: Hubble

    Titanic Storm Wiggles Like a Plate of Gelatin

    Eight Hubble images showing Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS). The GRS appears as a bright red oval in the middle of cream-colored cloud bands. The images trace changes in the GRS’s size, shape, brightness, color, and twisting, over a period of 90 days between December 2023 and March 2024.

  4. Hubble Tracks Jupiter's Stormy Weather

    March 14, 2024Release ID: 2024-009 Missions: Hubble

    Cyclones, Wind Shear, Violent Storms Churn in Jupiter's Atmosphere

    A side-by-side image showing both faces of Jupiter on the black background of space. At the top, left corner of the left-hand image is the label Jupiter. Centered at the bottom is the label "January 5, 2024." Jupiter is banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, punctuated with many large storms and small white clouds. The largest storm, the Great Red Spot, is the most prominent feature in the left bottom third of this view. To its lower right is a smaller reddish anticyclone, Red Spot Jr. On the right-hand image, centered at the bottom is the label "January 6, 2024." This opposite side of Jupiter is also banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, with many large storms and small white clouds punctuating the planet. At upper right of center, a pair of storms appear next to each other: a deep-red, triangle-shaped cyclone and a reddish anticyclone. Toward the far-left edge of this view is Jupiter's tiny orange-colored moon Io.

  5. NASA's Webb Discovers New Feature in Jupiter's Atmosphere

    October 19, 2023Release ID: 2023-147 Missions: Webb

    Narrow jet stream near equator has winds traveling 320 miles per hour.

    Jupiter dominates the black background of space. The image is a composite, and shows Jupiter in enhanced color, featuring the planet's famous Great Red Spot, which appears white with light pink around the edges. The planet is striated with swirling horizontal stripes of green, periwinkle, light pink, and cream. Horizontally across the equator is a wide cream-colored band, whose height extends about 1/7 of the planet. This is the planet’s equatorial zone. The stripes across the planet interact and mix at their edges. Along both of the northern and southern poles, the planet glows in green. Bright red auroras glow just above the planet’s surface at both poles.

  6. NASA’s Webb Finds Carbon Source on Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa

    September 21, 2023Release ID: 2023-113 Missions: Webb

    Carbon suggests favorable environment for life in subsurface ocean 

    A blue-and-white sphere against a black background is somewhat reminiscent of the famous “Blue Marble” picture of Earth from space. With fuzzy, diffuse edges, this sphere features darker blue patches in most of the northern hemisphere facing the viewer. One, large, crescent-shaped, white patch extends along left side of the southern hemisphere facing the viewer, and a larger, blobby, white patch covers the middle latitudes of the right side of the southern hemisphere. Lighter blue regions border these white patches in the south.

  7. Hubble Monitors Changing Weather and Seasons at Jupiter and Uranus

    March 23, 2023Release ID: 2023-007 Missions: Hubble

    Forecast for Blustery Winds, Smoggy Hazes

    Two views of the giant gas planet Jupiter appear side-by-side for comparison.

  8. Hubble's Grand Tour of the Outer Solar System

    November 18, 2021Release ID: 2021-047 Missions: Hubble

    Stunning Yearly Observations Reveal Changes to Gas Giants' Atmospheres

    A colorful Hubble view of Jupiter (left), Saturn (top right), Uranus (bottom middle), and Neptune (bottom right).

  9. Hubble Finds Evidence of Persistent Water Vapor in One Hemisphere of Europa

    October 14, 2021Release ID: 2021-057 Missions: Hubble

    Ice Sublimating Off the Surface Replenishes a Tenuous Envelope

    Two color-composite views of Jupiter's moon Europa taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in June 1997.

  10. Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are Speeding Up

    September 27, 2021Release ID: 2021-055 Missions: Hubble

    The Winds at the Outer Edge Are ‘Winning the Race’ in This Enormous Storm System

    Jupiter's red spot with ellipses and arrows denoting velocities at different radii.

  11. Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter's Moon Ganymede

    July 26, 2021Release ID: 2021-033 Missions: Hubble

    Oxygen Found on the Frozen World Is Linked to Sublimating Surface Ice

    brown and cratered moon

  12. Hubble Captures Crisp New Portrait of Jupiter's Storms

    September 17, 2020Release ID: 2020-42 Missions: Hubble

    Turbulent Storms Rage Across The Giant Planet

    Jupiter and Europa in 2020

  13. NASA's Webb Telescope Will Study Jupiter, its Rings, and Two Intriguing Moons

    July 31, 2020Release ID: 2020-38 Missions: Webb

    Gossamer rings, hidden oceans and stealth volcanos — Jupiter’s complex system will serve as Webb’s local proving ground

    Spacecraft image of a small moon in front of a large planet

  14. Telescopes and Spacecraft Join Forces to Probe Deep into Jupiter's Atmosphere

    May 07, 2020Release ID: 2020-21 Missions: Hubble

    Hubble and Gemini watch from afar, capturing high-resolution global views of Jupiter that are key to interpreting Juno's close-up observations of the planet.

    Telescopes and Spacecraft Join Forces to Probe Deep into Jupiter's Atmosphere

  15. Hubble's New Portrait of Jupiter

    August 08, 2019Release ID: 2019-36 Missions: Hubble

    A Close-Up Look at Jupiter's Dynamic Atmosphere

    Hubble's New Portrait of Jupiter

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