Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2021 October 26 IFRAME: [2]https://www.youtube.com/embed/QSXgDiS2H_A?rel=0 Jupiter Rotates Video Credit & Copyright: [3]JL Dauvergne; Music: Oro Aqua (Benoit Reeves) Explanation: Observe the graceful twirl of our Solar System's largest planet. Many interesting features of [4]Jupiter's enigmatic atmosphere, including [5]dark belts and light zones, can be followed in detail. A careful inspection will reveal that different cloud layers rotate [6]at slightly different speeds. The famous [7]Great Red Spot is not visible at first -- but soon rotates into view. Other [8]smaller storm systems occasionally appear. As large as [9]Jupiter is, it rotates in only 10 hours. Our small [10]Earth, by comparison, takes 24 hours to complete a [11]spin cycle. The [12]featured high-resolution time-lapse video was captured over five nights earlier this month by a mid-sized telescope on an apartment balcony in [13]Paris, [14]France. Since [15]hydrogen and [16]helium gas are colorless, and those elements compose most of Jupiter's expansive [17]atmosphere, what trace elements create the observed [18]colors of Jupiter's clouds remains a topic of research. Discovery + Outreach: [19]Graduate student research position open for APOD Tomorrow's picture: veil the bat __________________________________________________________________ [20]< | [21]Archive | [22]Submissions | [23]Index | [24]Search | [25]Calendar | [26]RSS | [27]Education | [28]About APOD | [29]Discuss | [30]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [31]Robert Nemiroff ([32]MTU) & [33]Jerry Bonnell ([34]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [35]Specific rights apply. [36]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [37]ASD at [38]NASA / [39]GSFC & [40]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://www.youtube.com/embed/QSXgDiS2H_A?rel=0 3. https://www.facebook.com/jeanluc.dauvergne 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Jupiter 5. https://www.planetary.org/space-images/jupiters-belts-and-zones 6. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001123.html 7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140518.html 8. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200106.html 9. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/in-depth/ 10. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ 11. http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/cat_washer.jpg 12. https://vimeo.com/637785783 13. https://youtu.be/72kRM86V-dw 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France 15. https://periodic.lanl.gov/1.shtml 16. https://periodic.lanl.gov/2.shtml 17. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160626.html 18. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981JGR....86.8797O/abstract 19. https://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=41989 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211025.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 22. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 24. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 25. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 26. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 27. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 29. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=211026 30. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211027.html 31. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 32. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 33. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 34. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 35. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 36. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 37. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 38. https://www.nasa.gov/ 39. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 40. http://www.mtu.edu/