How do you turn a region of Jupiter into a 3D print?
Open the generator, switch it to Jupiter, pick a storm or a belt from the list or drag the selection box over any other region within 60 degrees of the equator, and choose a jigsaw puzzle or a solid ornament in a circle, square or hexagon. Then pick how many colors to print, from 2 to 8, and a filament for each. OrbitStudio builds the model and shows it in 3D, in those filaments, before you download anything.
Generating a model and turning it around in 3D is free and needs no account. A free account adds puzzle slicing, custom frame text and a library of three models. Downloading the pre-colored 3MF files takes a Plus or Merchant plan, or one credit from a pass.
Why is a Jupiter model flat?
Because Jupiter has no solid surface. What we see is the top of its clouds, and no mission has measured their heights as a map: the Great Red Spot rises perhaps 10 kilometers above the clouds around it, less than a tenth of a millimeter on a model 200 millimeters wide. So a Jupiter model is a flat plate, and Hubble's colors are the whole of it: each color becomes its own region of filament, the belts and the Great Red Spot side by side. The generator says so before you generate, and the height setting stays off.
How much of Jupiter can be printed?
Everything within about 60 degrees of the equator. Beyond that, Hubble sees the clouds at a grazing angle and the map is blurred, so no model can be made there. The smallest region is about 12,000 kilometers across, nearly the width of the Great Red Spot; Hubble's map holds about 125 kilometers per pixel at the equator, so a smaller region would print fewer pixels than millimeters.
Is the map a photograph of Jupiter?
It is made from photographs. Hubble's Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program, OPAL, photographs all of Jupiter once a year with its Wide Field Camera 3 as the planet turns, through violet, green and red filters, and the team joins the images into one map of the whole planet. OrbitStudio prints the map of 11 December 2025 (doi:10.17909/T9G593). Jupiter's clouds move: the belts change color, and the Great Red Spot drifts in longitude from month to month. A model shows Jupiter as Hubble saw it that day, not as it looks tonight.
What does a Jupiter print need?
A printer that prints more than one filament, such as a Bambu Lab printer with an AMS, because a Jupiter model is nothing but its colors. Four colors is the default and reads well: a light cream for the zones, a tan and a brown for the belts, and a terracotta for the Great Red Spot. Matte filaments look most like the clouds. The frame, the frame text, the puzzle cover and the wall mount work as they do on every other world.
Do I have to credit anything?
Yes. Hubble's map is licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, which lets anyone use, change and sell it, on one condition: credit. If you share a Jupiter model or print, and selling it, showing it in public and posting photos of it are all sharing, give this credit where people will see it: Jupiter map and colours: NASA, ESA, A. A. Simon (NASA GSFC), M. H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Hubble Space Telescope OPAL program, image of 11 December 2025, doi:10.17909/T9G593, licensed CC BY 4.0, modified. The model's files carry it too. Do not present your prints as endorsed by NASA, ESA or the Space Telescope Science Institute. Section 08 of the terms explains it.
Which Jupiter places are built in?
Eight, in two groups: three storms, the Great Red Spot alone, with both equatorial belts, and Oval BA, and five belts and zones. The IAU names no clouds, so these are the names astronomers use, each pinned on Hubble's map of 11 December 2025. OrbitStudio counts longitude east, like every world in the app; astronomers count Jupiter's west, in System III, given beside each. Each one below opens the generator on Jupiter, already flown to it.
Storms
| Great Red Spot | 20.1° S, 38.3° E (System III 321.7° W) · Open in the generator |
|---|---|
| Great Red Spot and the belts | 12° S, 38.3° E (System III 321.7° W) · Open in the generator |
| Oval BA | 30.4° S, 147° E (System III 213.0° W) · Open in the generator |
Belts and zones
| North Equatorial Belt | 13° N, 114° W (System III 114.0° W) · Open in the generator |
|---|---|
| Equatorial Zone | 0° N, 150° W (System III 150.0° W) · Open in the generator |
| South Equatorial Belt | 14° S, 100° W (System III 100.0° W) · Open in the generator |
| North Temperate Belt | 24° N, 100° E (System III 260.0° W) · Open in the generator |
| The belts, 60 degrees wide | 0° N, 20° E (System III 340.0° W) · Open in the generator |
What is OrbitStudio?
OrbitStudio turns real space data into 3D-printable models. You pick a region on a globe or a flat map, choose a jigsaw puzzle or a solid ornament, and get ready-to-print files with the parts already separated and colored. No CAD, no mesh repair. Every other world is built from a mission's measured heights; Jupiter, the one without a surface, from Hubble's colors alone.
Trying it is free and needs no account: pick a region, generate it and turn it around in 3D. Downloading the model takes a Plus or Merchant plan, or one credit from a pass. The generator covers the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Vesta, Ceres, Pluto and Charon too.
The night sky, too
OrbitStudio Sky, the night-sky tool, turns the sky over any place, on any date from 1900 to 2100, into a 3D-printable star map. Its STL is free.