The ancient Romans once said Jupiter was god of the sky. So it's perhaps no surprise that the largest planet in our solar system is kind of hard to see in its entirety.
Sitting more than 365 million miles away from us, Jupiter's mass is around 300 times that of Earth. The gas giant could fit more than 1,300 Earths inside — an almost incomprehensible size.
That makes it tough to get a picture that captures the planet from tip to toe.
But an Icelandic computer scientist and software engineer recently took a stab at the task, and the image he created is shedding new light on Jupiter's true form.
Björn Jónsson stitched together over 100 images taken on two different missions (Cassini and Juno) to create a full photographic map of Jupiter.
"It's special because this is the first map that shows the polar regions of Jupiter clearly," Jónsson told Business Insider.
Here's what it looks like:
Keep scrolling to see more of Jónsson's composite images and how he put them together.
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Jónsson started his map with some images from the Cassini mission. NASA and the European Space Agency got a good side view of Jupiter from the spacecraft in 2000, as the probe headed to Saturn.
The Cassini probe also captured a glimpse of Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, Io, as seen here.
But the probe was more focused on Jupiter's middle, so it didn't get a great shot of the planet's poles.
It wasn't until 16 years later that the Juno mission was able to check out Jupiter's poles. Juno entered a polar orbit of Jupiter in July 2016, which is when we got the first high-definition glimpse of the planet from above.
Juno was roughly 48,000 miles (78,000 kilometers) from Jupiter's polar clouds when it captured this view.
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