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Imagen compuesta del Hubble/IRTF de las tormentas de Júpiter

The background image is from Hubble Space Telescope and shows the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes on May 11, 2007 (upper left part of Jupiter). The two bright plumes detach in the superimposed small infrared image obtained at the NASA-IRTF facility a month before, o...

Fecha
Jan 1, 2008
Misión
Hubble Space Telescope
ID de archivo
hubblesite-images-2008-06-2251-image
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The background image is from Hubble Space Telescope and shows the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes on May 11, 2007 (upper left part of Jupiter). The two bright plumes detach in the superimposed small infrared image obtained at the NASA-IRTF facility a month before, on April 5, 2007.

Credits

NASA, ESA, IRTF, A. Sánchez-Lavega and R. Hueso (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain )

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object NameJupiter
Object DescriptionPlanet
R.A. PositionThe semi-major axis of Jupiter's orbit about the Sun is 5.2 Astronomical Units (778 million km or 483 million miles).
DistanceThe planet has a diameter of roughly 88,789 miles (142,984 km) at the equator.
About The Data
Data DescriptionIRTF Data (inset): Other 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. HST Data: HST Proposal: I. de Pater, M. Wong, P. Marcus, and X. Asay-Davis (University of California, Berkeley).
InstrumentHST>WFPC2 and IRTF>NSFCam2 (inset)
Exposure DatesMay 11, 2007 (HST) and April 5, 2007 (IRTF)
FiltersWFPC2: 410 nm, 502 nm, and 673 nm NSFCam2 (inset): 2.3 microns
About The Image
Color InfoWFPC2 image: Blue: F410 nm Green: F502 nm Red: F673 nm

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