00:04You've no doubt seen images of Jupiter before, maybe even a flyover by the Juno spacecraft,
00:09but you've never seen it like this. This is the new 3D rendering of the clouds of our solar
00:14system's largest planet. It was captured by JunoCam with the spacecraft's visible light spectrum
00:19camera. The camera is capable of assessing relative height, allowing experts to take that
00:24information and place it into a 3D rendering program, providing us with a never-before-seen
00:28look at Jupiter's cloud formations. You can see pointy peaks and deep valleys, showing the swirls
00:33of Jupiter's ever-spinning storms, looking more like roses than tempestuous cyclones.
00:38According to Dr. Gerald Eichstadt, theoretical models tell us these clouds are made of ammonia,
00:43ammonium hydrosulfide, and water ice, from ammonia at the top to ice at the bottom.
00:47With Dr. Eichstadt explaining, once we calibrate our data thanks to other measurements of the same
00:52cloud tops, we will test and refine the theoretical predictions and have a better 3D picture of the
00:57chemical composition.
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