This is an image of a brown barge and some Earth clouds.
Image from: NASA, NOAA
Compare a Brown Barge of Jupiter with some Terrestrial clouds
This is an image of a
brown barge, (40 K JPG) next to
some Earth clouds (32 K JPG) for comparison.
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