Hubble captured this view on 25 August 2020. Jupiter’s cloud bands and Great Red Spot share the frame with the icy moon Europa. It earns the opening place because familiar weather patterns provide an easy entrance to astronomical images.
Trace the bands before locating Europa beside the planet. Compare broad stripes with the compact storm, but treat this as a dated atmospheric portrait: it does not show Jupiter’s weather today. Explore our largest moons for context.
Source/image: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team. · CC BY 4.0. Resized; colours retained.