Space geeks tweak NASA images of Jupiter's red spot

NASA's Juno spacecraft sent back the closest-ever views of Jupiter's Great Red Spot last week and invited the public to pop the raw images into Photoshop to enhance or otherwise pretty them up. The result has been hundreds of new looks for the gas giant and its famous planet-sized storm. 

Here, Shawn Handran used Photoshop with Google Nik to add a nefarious edge to the Great Red Spot, giving it more of an "Eye of Sauron" feel. 

If you could visit the Great Red Spot, which you really don't want to do, it definitely wouldn't be the flat swirls of color it appears to be in two-dimensional images. To give a better picture of its contours, here it is rendered in three dimensions.

Zooming all the way in reveals what looks like multiple monstrous hurricanes making up the larger, tumultuous spot.

The color has been adjusted in this close-up of the almost infinite number of swirling storms in Jupiter's thick atmosphere.

Running the red spot through a few filters makes it look retro and tumultuous at the same time.

A bit of color saturation added to Jupiter's "eye."

This image was post-processed to bring out fine details and colors of a broad swath of the planet.  

A color enhanced view of Jupiter's south pole.

Let's hope that big red spot never gets hungry, because it could swallow Earth whole pretty easily. 

As if the bone-crushing gravity and pressures of Jupiter weren't enough, some mirroring and filters make it even more freaky.

Is it really a gas giant? Or made up of liquid metal sent back from the future? This enhancement that conjures visions of "Terminator" makes me wonder.

Look deep into Jupiter's planet-sized storm and you'll wish you had some planet-sized eye drops to offer to this huge, bloodshot feature on the gas giant.

This image runs Jupiter through "contrast color range enhancement plus large flat detail extraction enhancement" to bring out the ... I don't know what, but it looks pretty cool.

Red is overrated. Here's the same world outfitted with a nifty new green spot.

Though the Great Red spot has shrunk over the years, its size remains impressive yet still hard to conceive without some Earthly comparison.

Running Jupiter's profile through a variety of filters provides a more psychedelic view.

Had Juno been beaming images back to the impressionists of the 19th century in Paris, they might have painted it this way. 

Even massive storms get the blues, at least in Photoshop they do.  

Endless fun with effects through software like Photo Lab can produce this abstract crater rendering.

Somebody had to do it. 

New takes on Jupiter and the Great Red Spot continue to be uploaded, and Juno is just getting going with its formal science mission phase that will surely include many more images to come.