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A real photograph of Jupiter's cloud tops from NASA's Juno spacecraft, set in motion by a fluid simulation. Ovals turn, jets shear along the edge of the planet, and eddies come and go. Sweep your cursor to stir the clouds.
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Jupiter starts from a real photograph: JunoCam's view from the Juno spacecraft's twelfth close pass on 1 April 2018, with the edge of the planet across the top-left, an ochre band, and a slate-blue storm belt full of pale ovals and dark filaments. A fluid simulation running on your graphics card then moves the photo's own pixels.
Nothing is a video. The photo is a single still image; all the motion is simulated live with WebGL, and the eddies appear at random, so it never loops.
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Yes. It is JunoCam image PIA21984, "Intricate Clouds of Jupiter". Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, processing by Kevin M. Gill (CC BY).
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No. The storms sit where the real ones are in the photo, but the movement is a fluid simulation made for this theme, not a measurement of Jupiter's winds.
No. It's a desktop browser extension for Chrome and Edge on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. If you're reading this on a phone, send yourself the link.