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Jupiter Compass Image
A side-by-side image titled "Jupiter HST/WFC3/UVIS," shows opposite faces of Jupiter on the black background of space. Below the title is a color key with the filters and colors used to create the images – "F395N" blue; "F502N" green, and "F631N" red. Centered at the bottom is th...
- Date
- Mar 14, 2024
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2024-009-01hpmn594hrrgf77ckpsdcq21f
A side-by-side image titled "Jupiter HST/WFC3/UVIS," shows opposite faces of Jupiter on the black background of space. Below the title is a color key with the filters and colors used to create the images – "F395N" blue; "F502N" green, and "F631N" red. Centered at the bottom is the label "January 5, 2024." To the left is a scale bar "34,000 mi over 55,000 km." Jupiter is banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream. Many large storms and small white clouds punctuate the planet. The largest storm, the Great Red Spot, is the most prominent feature in the left bottom third of this view. To its lower right is a smaller reddish anticyclone, Red Spot Jr. Another small red anticyclone appears near the top center of the image. On the right-hand image, centered at the bottom is the label "January 6, 2024." To the right are compass arrows indicating the orientation on the sky. The north arrow points towards the 11 o'clock direction. The east arrow points toward 8 o'clock. This other side of Jupiter is also banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream, with many large storms and small white clouds punctuating the planet. At upper right of center, a pair of storms appear next to each other: a deep-red, triangle-shaped cyclone and a reddish anticyclone. Toward the far-left edge of the image is Jupiter's tiny moon Io. The variegated orange color is where volcanic outflow deposits are seen on Io's surface.
Credits
Science
NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC)
Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Jupiter |
| Object Description | Planet |
| Distance | On January 5th and 6th, 2024 Jupiter was 4.56 AU from Earth (about 424 million miles or 682 million km). |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The HST observations include those from program (A. Simon) |
| Instrument | WFC3/UVIS |
| Exposure Dates | Jan. 5-6, 2024 |
| Filters | F395N, F502N, F631N |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | These images are a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample medium wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F395N, Green: F502N, Red: F631N. |
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