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Tired of Winter? Try This Month on Jupiter

Atmospheric features in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere are captured in this view from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The new perspective shows swirling clouds that surround a circular feature within a jet stream region called “Jet N6.”

This color-enhanced image was taken at 9:20 a.m. PST on Feb. 12, 2019 (12:20 p.m. EST), as the spacecraft performed its 18th close flyby of the gas giant planet. At the time, Juno was about 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) from the planet’s cloud tops, above a latitude of approximately 55 degrees north. Dramatic Jupiter | NASA

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  • Walter Sobchak February 25, 2019, 1:43 PM

    My son and his now wife used “Jupiter” as the recessional music at their wedding.

  • Ray Van Dune February 26, 2019, 2:37 PM

    Holst gave each planet in “The Planets” a persona that is reflected in its music. Mars was a “Bringer of War” from ancient times, and it sounds militaristic and threatening. Venus is romantic and dreamy, etc. But Jupiter’s persona according to Holst is “Jollity”. I recall hearing Jupiter played at what was claimed to be the original faster tempo scored by Holst, and it was a lively dancing jig, completely unlike the “Chariots of Fire” version we know, although the melody was unchanged. I hated it, but apparently that’s the way he wrote it! Anyone know why it is played so differently now?