Jupiter / # 6 Northern Lights are undoubtedly one of the most beautiful natural phenomena in the world - yes, in the whole universe! Of course, in our own solar system, the most magnificent northern lights are also found on the largest and most magnificent planet: Jupiter. Jupiter is approx. 11 times larger than Earth - so it may not be strange that its northern lights also take up more space than it does here on Earth. Both on the planet's vast north and south poles, it is possible to see the spectacular light show, as around each pole a glowing ring of northern lights is formed, which is larger in circumference than our home plane! In other words, the fact that Jupiter is named after the top Roman god Jupiter (in Greek mythology called Zeus), who was also the heavenly god, seems incredibly appropriate. Besides having an unimaginable size, the planet also has over 50 moons and a ring system like Saturn's (albeit less obvious). NASA's poster series is created on the basis of a desire to make people dream out into outer space, thus envisioning a life outside Earth in a perhaps barely distant future. So how would life on Jupiter be? The planet rotates at an incredible speed, so one day lasts only 10 hours. In return, it takes 12 years for the planet to reach a round around the sun. Fewer hours a day and more days a year - it is not an understatement to say that life on Jupiter would be magnificent, beautiful and a bit of a hectic game! Then maybe it is very good that the planet after all parameters is uninhabitable ... Jupiter's atmosphere consists mainly of hydrogen and helium, so the surface also looks delicious and soft with its swirls of clouds. These clouds have precisely formed the basis for the poster, where they appear at the bottom as a background for the text "experience the mighty auroras of Jupiter". In fact, Ron Miller had already painted the clouds before the poster came into play. But in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is behind the NASA posters, they were so fond of the clouds that they asked to use them on this poster. Fortunately, they were allowed, which resulted in Stefan Bucher designing this spectacular poster. The poster with Jupiter is probably the most spacy in the whole series, with its purple and turquoise colors as well as silvery, reflective air balloons.
