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Jupiter Clouds in Motion in Google Earth

November 12, 2006

Jupiter cloud animation in Google EarthGoogle Earth lets you do whole planet image overlays, so you can turn Earth into other planets if you want (see below for other examples). A few days ago, Google Earth Community member ‘barnabu’ posted a time animation of the planet Jupiter taken by the NASA Cassini spacecraft in the year 2000 over a period of 24 Jovian rotations. The same side of Jupiter is shown in each frame so you see the motion of the clouds. The time animation is viewable in the new Google Earth 4 (v 4.0.2091 or greater). After loading the Jupiter animation (1.8 MBytes), you will see the time slider gadget in the upper part of the screen. First, turn off the Earth’s atmosphere by using the menu “View->Atmosphere“. You can either move the slider manually, or click on the triangular “Play” on the right side of the gadget. I recommend changing the speed of the animation by clicking on the clock gadget to the left and making the speed faster. The first time through you have to load all the images. After that it should animate quickly if you have a reasonable amount of graphics memory on your computer. The motion of the clouds are really cool, especially the great red spot. For fun, spin GE to while the animation is going. Amazing! See this NASA page for more details on the Jupiter images. Great work as usual ‘barnabu’!
Related:

  • Google Jupiter – this was a single image of Jupiter I overlayed in GE back in April
  • Google Saturn – this uses a 3D model for the clouds, also done by ‘barnabu’
  • Mars Add-on for Google Earth
  • Google Mars in Google Maps
  • Space Atlas for Google Earth

About Frank Taylor

Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank completed a 5.5 year circumnavigation of the earth by sailboat in June 2015 which you can read about at Tahina Expedition, and is a licensed pilot, backpacker, diver, and photographer.

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  1. Alex Panayi says

    September 18, 2007 at 10:53 am

    Jupiter is very big.

  2. bob says

    October 2, 2007 at 10:02 am

    I did not know that. Thank you for that wonderfull piece of information.

  3. Eric says

    October 23, 2007 at 6:05 am

    jupiter is not really big compared to the sun.but the sun is even extreme tiny in the galaxy.

  4. steve says

    February 29, 2008 at 10:53 am

    This site is so usefull for school!

  5. Jeff says

    May 1, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    This Is GRRRRREEEAT!

  6. ed says

    July 28, 2008 at 2:07 am

    fantastic, viewed jupiter last night with 3 moons visable………..amazing. How insignificant are we?

  7. Visitor says

    September 12, 2008 at 6:29 am

    In the “Solar System Intro” page, I clicked on “In Motion”. Now I want to turn it off. How do I do that? I’m even considering re-installing it. What do I do?

  8. alex petersen says

    January 24, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    that is awesome but where is the red giant oh well jupiter is intreguing isnt it by the way i dont know alot about space…really…jupiter is awesome though p.s.im not that smart caus…im 11

  9. brian says

    August 22, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    i cant get in motion to start it just keeps sending me to the pinwheel galaxy

  10. Doethsz says

    December 24, 2010 at 6:31 pm

    Jupiter, like Earth have the electricity 🙂 And the big red is an eye ! 😛

  11. Dylan Ong Chen Xi says

    September 16, 2013 at 1:32 am

    The Jupiter seems to had a great red spot but what is that big white eye at the top of the red spot?
    🙂

  12. Al says

    July 6, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    This week Juno finally reached Jupiter. It took more than 5 years to get there. So now the real excitement begins!!



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