Emily Lakdawalla • May 11, 2018
Juno's 12th perijove in lifelike color
Because the JunoCam team depends upon the labor of volunteers to process their images for public consumption, there's been lovely diversity in the portrayal of Jupiter from Juno data. Many image processors chose to enhance and sharpen the subtle contrasts in the cloud features, but space artist Don Davis is usually after a perspective that rings true to our subjective judgment of what Jupiter ought to look like. With the help of some preprocessing by Mattias Malmer, Davis presents us how Jupiter might have looked on April 1, 2018, if we'd been aboard Juno.
![Crescent Jupiter from Juno](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x876_crop_center-center_82_line/20180423_juno-crescent-jupiter.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x561_crop_center-center_82_line/20180423_juno-crescent-jupiter.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x420_crop_center-center_82_line/20180423_juno-crescent-jupiter.jpg 576w)
![Jupiter's northern turbulent region](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x2958_crop_center-center_82_line/20180510_JUNOAP118MMDD.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x1893_crop_center-center_60_line/20180510_JUNOAP118MMDD.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x1420_crop_center-center_60_line/20180510_JUNOAP118MMDD.jpg 576w)
Here's a detail from that northern turbulent region. Look at the vertical relief on the clouds!
![Jupiter cloud relief](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x759_crop_center-center_60_line/20180424_SLRCLOSE.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x569_crop_center-center_60_line/20180424_SLRCLOSE.jpg 576w)
Now let's sweep down past the red spot in three images...
![The Great Red Spot comes into view](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x1992_crop_center-center_82_line/20180424_jnce_2018091_12c00099_v01mmdd.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x1275_crop_center-center_60_line/20180424_jnce_2018091_12c00099_v01mmdd.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x956_crop_center-center_60_line/20180424_jnce_2018091_12c00099_v01mmdd.jpg 576w)
![Clouds upstream of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, perijove 12](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x2754_crop_center-center_82_line/20180424_jnce_2018091_12c00092_v01mmdd.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x1762_crop_center-center_60_line/20180424_jnce_2018091_12c00092_v01mmdd.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x1321_crop_center-center_60_line/20180424_jnce_2018091_12c00092_v01mmdd.jpg 576w)
And finally, just for fun: Davis compares Earth's clouds with Jupiter's, at the same scale.
![Clouds on Earth and Jupiter](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x1329_crop_center-center_82_line/20180424_JUNOAP118MMDDWEFLAT.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x851_crop_center-center_60_line/20180424_JUNOAP118MMDDWEFLAT.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x638_crop_center-center_60_line/20180424_JUNOAP118MMDDWEFLAT.jpg 576w)
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