Turbulence furrows Jupiter's brow

The "eye" is really a giant storm and the "eyebrow" a region of clouds shaped by the turbulence of winds diverted around the storm.

A set of other new Jupiter images from Cassini shows a rising storm that penetrates through multiple layers of the planet's atmosphere.

Cassini will pass most closely to Jupiter, at a flyby distance of about 10 million kilometers (6 million miles), on Dec. 30. It will use a boost from Jupiter's gravity to reach its ultimate destination, Saturn. While near Jupiter, it is studying that planet's atmosphere, magnetic field and rings in collaboration with NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since Dec. 7, 1995.

Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the Cassini and Galileo missions for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

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