Stunning Jupiter storm photographs can be analyzed by citizens in new scientific project - Daily Mail

The effort is meant to study the 'different types of clouds that form on Jupiter, in order to better understand how the atmosphere of the largest planet in our solar system works,' Ramanakumar Sankar, lead of the project and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota, explained.

Researchers will focus on the vortices that form in the clouds of Jupiter, as well as their origins, which have long puzzled scientists, Sankar said.

Scientists hope to better understand these areas by creating a catalog of the vortices and 'match them with the underlying physics/chemistry of the location that they form in,' Sankar wrote in a blog post

'If one person is having trouble categorizing an image, maybe others will, too,' Sankar said

'If one person is having trouble categorizing an image, maybe others will, too,' Sankar said