Jupiter Jet and Brown Barge

The southern edge of Jupiter's north polar region is captured in this view from NASA's Juno spacecraft. The scene prominently displays a long, brown oval known as a "brown barge" located within a polar jet stream, called "Jet N4." This image was taken at 9:25 a.m. PST on Feb. 12, 2019 (12:25 p.m. EST), as the spacecraft performed its 18th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers) from the planet's cloud tops, above a latitude of approximately 44 degrees north. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA22945. Enhanced image by Gerald Eichstädt and Justin Cowart based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS