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This script will make Jupiter look the way it looks at the Orbiter Space Simulator.The planet's surface looks like is made of clouds but when viewing the planet from back , the results are not good..

see pic
http://www.Photo-Host.org/view/994715jup0.jpg

texture
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/82/jupiteran8.jpg


Make a copy and open Data/solarsys.ssc

replace Jupiter script with this one

"Jupiter" "Sol"
{
Texture "jupiter.*"
Radius 71492 # equatorial
Oblateness 0.0649

CustomOrbit "vsop87-jupiter"
EllipticalOrbit
{
Period 11.8622
SemiMajorAxis 5.2034
Eccentricity 0.0484
Inclination 1.3053
AscendingNode 100.556
LongOfPericenter 14.7539
MeanLongitude 34.404
}

Atmosphere {
Mie 0.000000000000003
MieAsymmetry 0
Rayleigh [ 0.00002 0.000001 0.000001 ]
Absorption [ 0.001 0.001 0.001 ]
MieScaleHeight 130
}

UniformRotation
{
Period 9.927953 # System II (for GRS)
# Period 9.92425 # System III (radio emissions)
Inclination 2.222461 # 1.82246 # 2.22246
AscendingNode -22.203 # -1.87785 # -22.203
MeridianAngle 342 # for correct location of GRS
# (equal to 461 minus current W longitude of GRS)
# MeridianAngle 305.40 # correct System III prime meridian
}

Albedo 0.51
}

This is interesting but it makes Jupiter look awfully drab and dark. I'm not sure this is realistic. It would be nice to find an atmospheric effect that is close to yours but brighter.