Time-lapse Sequence of Jupiter's South Pole

This series of images captures cloud patterns near Jupiter's south pole, looking up towards the planet's equator.

NASA's Juno spacecraft took the time-lapse sequence of images during its eleventh close flyby of the gas giant planet and the spacecraft was between 137,264 to 200,937 kilometers from the tops of the clouds of the planet.

At first glance, the series might appear to be the same image repeated. But closer inspection reveals slight changes, which are most easily noticed by comparing the far left image with the far right image.

Directly, the images show Jupiter. But, through slight variations in the images, they indirectly capture the motion of the Juno spacecraft itself, once again swinging around a giant planet hundreds of millions of miles from Earth.