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Bits of Jupiter
@jupiterbits.bsky.social
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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 / Henrik Lundh III)
Close-up shot of Jupiter's cloudtops near one of its polar hood areas, displaying loads of turbulent flow among countless storm systems.
January 13, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @emmywalimaki.bsky.social)
Close-up view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes, showing the turbulence between its subtropical cloud bands and the polar hood region, as well as some storm systems in the area.
January 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Leighann Derck)
View of one of Jupiter's polar regions, containing countless storm systems of various shapes, sizes, colours and textures. The storms among the smallest ones in the picture are still larger than the largest hurricanes on Earth.
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Ted Demolski)
Wide view of Jupiter's southern subtropical latitudes, with multiple of its cloud bands visible, each containing sets of large, turbulent storms.
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Ariel Wulfman)
Close-up view of Jupiter's northern high latitudes, with loads of turbulent flow visible across the field of view.
January 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @bswift.bsky.social)
Close-up view of Jupiter's cloudtops, featuring a large, dark shaded turbulent storm system.
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "hana0rain")
Narrow angle view of Jupiter's higher latitudes, displaying the interaction between its polar hood region and the area around it.
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @bjornjonsson.bsky.social)
Close-up view of a long, extremely turbulent storm on the planet Jupiter.
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / K.L. Kohn)
Medium-angle view of Jupiter's northern subtropics. Two distinctly coloured regions are shown, with the bluer, northernmost one being extremely turbulent. Amidst all the turbulence, seven smaller, rounder storms stand out.
January 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Daniel Szmytkowski)
Picture of the shadow of one of Jupiter's moons being cast on the planet's cloudtops.
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @andrealuck.bsky.social)
Oblique view of Jupiter's cloudtops, looking over the planet's northern equatorial latitudes. The shadow of Io, one of its moons, can be seen near its limb.
January 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / @kevinmgill.bsky.social / Navaneeth Krishnan S.)
Detailed shot of Jupiter's cloudtops, showcasing the turbulence and variance in colour across the planet's atmosphere.
January 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Aron Yoffe)
Taken high above Jupiter's southern subtropics, this picture shows various of its cloud bands with numerous storms and swirls and very distinct colour patterns, the area closest to the south pole being notably bluer than the rest.
January 10, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Rishi Bakhri)
Picture of the planet Jupiter, showing some of its cloud bands and an elongated oval red storm standing out on one of them.
January 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / J.P. Hersey)
Close-up view of Jupiter's tropics, showcasing four of its cloud bands and countless turbulent cloud systems.
January 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "C-stanton")
Image of Jupiter's mid-latitude cloudtops. Varying amounts of turbulence is seen present in different places of the planet's cloud bands.
January 9, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Hugo-Stiglitz559")
Picture of Jupiter showing its massive storm known as the Great Red Spot and its surroundings.
January 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Serpe-67")
Wide-angle view of Jupiter's southernmost latitudes, featuring the colour contrast between different parts of the planet's cloudtops.
January 9, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "DerMits")
Photo taken between Jupiter's tropics and one of its poles. The area nearest the pole is generally bluer than the rest, and many storms and turbulent clouds of multiple sizes are visible throughout.
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Sandeep Prasad)
Photo taken high above Jupiter's south subtropics. The stark colour contrast between the polar region and the rest of the """surface""" is notable. Countless storm systems of different shapes, sizes and levels of turbulence are present.
January 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Andrea Bruschi)
Close-up view of a long, extremely turbulent storm system on the planet Jupiter.
January 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Roberto M Gonzalez)
Close-up view of the Great Red Spot, a massive storm on Jupiter larger than the entire planet Earth.
January 8, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Tom Smith)
Close-up view of Jupiter, focusing in on the Great Red Spot, a massive anticyclone that is centuries old.
January 7, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik)
Wide angle photo of Jupiter's southern hemisphere, including a few of its cloud bands and countless storm systems.
January 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / "Gedas of the MOO")
Picture of the planet Jupiter, showing some of its cloud bands and an elongated oval red storm standing out on one of them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM