Jupiter's Great Red Spot seen as amazing work of art
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Jupiter's Great Red Spot just got a makeover.
An artist named Mik Petter created this colorful, digital artwork with data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
According to the space agency, the art form -- which is called fractals -- uses mathematical formulas to create art with an infinite variety of form, detail, color and light.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The swirling atmospheric zones in and around the Great Red Spot are shown by the artist’s use of brightly colored fractals.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Vibrant colors of various tints and hues, combined with the almost organic-seeming shapes, make this image seem to be a colorized and crowded petri dish of microorganisms, or a close-up view of microscopic and wildly-painted seashells," NASA said in a statement.
The original JunoCam image was photographed on July 10, 2017, at 10:10 p.m. EDT, as the Juno spacecraft performed its seventh close flyby of Jupiter.
The spacecraft captured the image from about 8,648 miles above the tops of the clouds of the planet.
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