ThingiverseJupiter scaled one in one billion
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As well as my other posts on gas giants, this is not a true relief of the surface of Jupiter, because it has not a solid surface, but it is instead a interpretation of the height of the clouds as proportional to the albedo (brightness). Contrary to my posts of Uranus and Neptune, in which I've used high contrasted images and mosaics of the planets, with Jupiter I used a global map in true color, that I high-passed to keep only the "turbulence" of the atmosphere, discarding the bright level of some bands. As well with the other gas planets, the clouds moves and the bands of atmosphere rotate at different spins, so the map is valid for the moment the photos were taken. It was modelled using MATLAB R2016a. The model is scaled one in one billion, or one in one thousand million in the long scale system. In this scale, the Earth is about 1cm in diameter. The ring system of Jupiter is far reduced when compared with that of Saturn, even with the one of the ice giants. Here it is simplified to