Jupiter & Moons Megaoverlay 2020 UPDATE

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet in the Solar System. It is a giant planet with a mass one-thousandth of that of the Sun, but is two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is a gas giant, along with Saturn (Uranus and Neptune are ice giants). Jupiter was known to astronomers of ancient times. The Romans named it after their god Jupiter. When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can reach an apparent magnitude of −2.94, bright enough to cast shadows, and making it on average the third-brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.

Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium, although helium only comprises about a tenth of the number of molecules. It may also have a rocky core of heavier elements, but like the other giant planets, Jupiter lacks a well-defined solid surface. Because of its rapid rotation, the planet's shape is that of an oblate spheroid (it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator). The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, resulting in turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century when it was first seen by telescope. Surrounding Jupiter is a faint planetary ring system and a powerful magnetosphere. Jupiter has at least 67 moons, including the four large Galilean moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. Ganymede, the largest of these, has a diameter greater than that of the planet Mercury.
en.wikipedia.org/?title=Jupiter

I give you the King of the planets, Jupiter, and 6 of it's moons

Jupiter Megaoverlay.kmz (302.41 KB)

This overlay set contains:

For Jupiter:
Mega resolution overlay by Cassini/Juno
1 Super Resolution Overlay of Jupiter's Magnetic Field
4 High Resolution overlays
Cassini
2015 Hubble Space Telescope
Juno Perijove 9
Juno Perijove 24
3 medium resolution overlays
Cassini Ultraviolet
Voyager 2
Voyager 1
2 Low resolution Overlays
Hubble Space Telescope 2008
New Horizons
3 Tiny Resolution Overlays
Pioneer 10 January 1973
Pioneer 10 February 1973
Pioneer 11


For Amalthea:
High resolution shaded relief overlay
Low Resolution Topography

For Thebe:
Images of Thebe (there's no map of it but it had to be included)

For Io:
Super resolution overlay from Galileo/Voyager
Medium resolution geologic map
Medium resolution topography
Low resolution color ratio

For Europa:
Mega resolution overlay from Galileo/Voyager
Low Resolution Voyager Airbrush

For Ganymede:
Mega resolution overlay from Galileo/Voyager

Super resolution geologic map

Super resolution color map
Medium resolution Voyager airbrush

For Callisto:
Mega resolution overlay from Galileo/Voyager
Voyager Airbrush

It also contains:
Over 300 images from NASA's planetary photojournal
Placenames approved by the IAU
Insets of higher resolution on the Galilean moons.

Like my Martian Moons and Venus overlays, the images may take sometime to load.
Because Jupiter is a surfaceless gas giant the features move around in each overlay of it.
Similar to Phobos and Deimos, Amalthea is a non spherical object so the map of it looks distorted.

8 Overlays of the king of planets showing changes overtime as features appeared, disappeared, grew, and shrank  (image edited to show variety of overlays)

Hypervolcanic Io

Cracked Europa

Insets with SUPER high resolution imagery!!!

Groovy Ganymede

Now in 16K Resolution (BTW this crater looks like it was made by a giant snowball at this resolution.)

Battered Callisto

This took me about 21 hours to do. I was initially going to add 2 cloud videos similar to Barnabu's add on but Google Earth absolutely hates the idea of getting layers from FTP sites. The hardest part was finding where many of the images are.
Next up, the Saturnian system.

2020 UPDATE: This has now been updated. Took 20 hours. Some placenames were updated. Jupiter got a few more overlays including a 14K one that looks super beautiful! Added extra maps of Io and Ganymede. The maps of all Galilean moons have been upgraded to 11K, 16K, 16K, and 15K resolution for Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto respectively. Maps for Ganymede and Europa had to be downsized but it is a definite step up from the 8K maps I used to use.

Did an update to this system. Many textures have been upgraded from the 8K limit that I used to have to contend with.