Jupiter Unveiled: Hubble Captures the Giant’s Roaring Storms and Volcanic Moon Io

Cyclones, Wind Shear, Violent Storms Churn in Jupiter’s Atmosphere
The largest and nearest of the giant outer planets, Jupiter’s colorful clouds present an ever-changing kaleidoscope of shapes and colors. This is a planet where there is always stormy weather: cyclones, anticyclones, wind shear, and the largest storm in the solar system, the Great Red Spot.

Jupiter has no solid surface and is perpetually covered with largely ammonia ice-crystal clouds that are only about 30 miles thick in an atmosphere that’s tens of thousands of miles deep and give the planet its banded appearance.