Video Shows Incredible 3D Animation of Jupiter's "Frosted Cupcake" Clouds

A short video, shared on YouTube, revealed delicately textured swirls and peaks that researchers said resembled the frosting top of a cupcake.

A group of scientists recently used NASA's Juno spacecraft to produce stunning 3D renders to simulate how Jupiter's raging storms would appear from space. A short video, shared on YouTube by Europlanet, revealed delicately textured swirls and peaks that researchers said resembled the frosting top of a cupcake. 

"This computer animation shows a flight over such a landscape for processed, red-filtered image data collected by JunoCam, the wide-angle visible light imager of NASA's Juno spacecraft, during her 43rd close Jupiter flyby," the caption of the post read. 

Watch the video below: