Jupiter’s Giant Face Looks Super Unhappy About Something

Jupiter, who hurt you? Last month, NASA’s Juno mission spotted a region of the gas giant’s atmosphere forming an abject face, complete with wide eyes, a nose, and frowning mouth.

The despondent face was imaged on September 7, during the Juno spacecraft’s 54th close flyby of Jupiter. Juno arrived in Jupiter’s orbit in July 2016, and since then has been studying the gas giant’s turbulent atmosphere, its weather, and aspects of the planet’s moons.

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Jet N7 was previously visited, most recently on a Juno flyby in May 2023. But this time, the area didn’t appear particularly pleased to see the NASA spacecraft soaring above it. Clouds in the image look like a human face, albeit a slightly distorted one. Oblong dark eyes are framed by clouds that form an errant eyebrow and a nose, complete with nostrils. Towards the bottom of the ‘face’ is a crescent-shaped cloud formation, forming the figure’s deep frown.

The image is an example of pareidolia, which causes us humans to see patterns like faces in unrelated structures. (The man on the Moon is a classic example of this.) In 2020, a European satellite imaged what looked like an angel in a dune field on Mars. The year before, a galactic collision took on a ghostly—or, as commenters noted, C3PO-like—face.

Jupiter’s clouds are dynamic, so the figure on its surface is not forever—the face in our Moon will almost certainly outlast it. But I sure hope things get better for the fleeting face.

More: Webb Telescope Reveals a High-Speed Jet on Jupiter

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