Earth's Ocean and Jupiter's Atmosphere

This morphing animation compares the eddies in Earth's oceans to the turbulent clouds in Jupiter's atmosphere. In the movie, a zoom occurs around a vortex dipole: a typical structure consisting of a cyclone and an anticyclone that is present both in Earth's ocean and Jupiter's atmosphere. The ocean image showing the spring phytoplankton bloom in the southern Gulf of Bothnia was generated from data collected by the MODIS instrument about NASA's Aqua satellite. The Jupiter image is from JunoCam. Scientist Lia Siegelman observed the similarities between the richness of turbulence around Joviancyclones and the filaments around smaller eddies seen in Earth's oceans. These similarities were especially evident in high-resolution satellite images of plankton blooms. Movie available at https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA25069

Date

2022-01-18

Photographer / author

NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt (Jupiter image) NASA OBPG OB.DAAC/GSFC/Landsat 8/Gerald Eichstädt (Ocean image)

Collection

JPL

Archive

NASA Image and Video Library

Type

illustration (NASA artwork)

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