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NASA astronaut Don Pettit used water and food coloring to make a "Jupiter-like planet" on the International Space Station. Bold orange, blue and red shine in the ball, which he captured on camera ...

In 1965, NASA engineers used “paint by numbers” to construct an image of Mars sent back by the Mariner 4 probe. It became the first image of another planet taken from space.

Microgravity makes water do weird and wonderful things. NASA astronaut Don Pettit took advantage of that fact to create a colorful ball that resembles Jupiter.