The gas giant Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, has a turbulant atmosphere of brightly colored clouds. Home Run Pictures' animators wanted to create an introduction to the planet for a NASA funded educational planetarium show, but instead of the usual static orbital view... show a more dramatic time-lapse view of the clouds in motion. NASA scientists have created time-lapse movies from individual stills taken by one of their orbiting probes, but their movies are very short and quite low-resolution. Also there are many undesirable artifacts present in the sequence of images from the probe's imager. So starting with the NASA imagery and then through several processes of pixel interpolation and other corrective "fix" measures, we were able to create a nicely resolved animation of the clouds in motion for use for the Louisiana Art & Science Museum's and Houston Museum of Natural Science's fulldome planetarium program, "The Great Planet Adventures."

Soundtrack courtesy of Doug Maxwell