Jupiter’s spooky face
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, during its 54th close encounter with Jupiter, captured a ghostly image of Jet N7 in the gas giant’s far northern regions, highlighting turbulent clouds and storms along the terminator (the dividing line between the planet’s day and night sides). The cloud patterns in this image are a great example of pareidolia, in which our brains trick us into seeing familiar shapes like faces in random places. Citizen scientist Vladimir Tarasov processed this image using raw data from JunoCam, when Juno was approximately 4,800 miles (7,725 kilometers) above the cloud tops.
