Storm systems as big as continents swirl through the atmosphere of Jupiter in this 2007 image from Hubble Space Telescope. The storms form big swirls and streamers in the planet's bands of clouds. Jupiter's internal heat drives the storms instead of energy from the Sun, which powers storms on Earth. [NASA/ESA]
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