Jupiter's atmosphere is a blast.

Up close, from a spacecraft camera, colorful clouds swirl and tumble at high speeds across its face. Viewed from Earth, the features tend to be hard to distinguish, but even a small telescope can reveal the North and South Equatorial Belts of Jupiter's atmosphere.

The belts are multicolored bands of clouds stretched out around the planet by Jupiter's rapid rotation. The resulting broad belts are blown around the planet in opposite directions. Storms tend to form where the belts meet.