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Infrared-Light Image of Jupiter - Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)
An image of Jupiter in infrared-light from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on April 5, 2007. CreditsNASA, ESA, IRTF, and A. Sánchez-Lavega and R. Hueso (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain )
- Date
- Jan 1, 2008
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2008-06-2249-image
An image of Jupiter in infrared-light from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on April 5, 2007.
Credits
NASA, ESA, IRTF, and A. Sánchez-Lavega and R. Hueso (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain )Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Jupiter |
| Object Description | Planet |
| R.A. Position | The semi-major axis of Jupiter's orbit about the Sun is 5.2 Astronomical Units (778 million km or 483 million miles). |
| Distance | The planet has a diameter of roughly 88,789 miles (142,984 km) at the equator. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Data used in this composite image were taken on April 5, 2007 with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (a 3.0 meter telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii). The image was taken through a medium-band filter centered at 2.3 microns; six exposures of 1 second each were taken with the NSFCam2 instrument. |
| Instrument | IRTF>NSFCam2 |
| Exposure Dates | April 5, 2007 |
| Filters | 2.3 microns |
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