Compass/Scale Image of Jupiter

Image Details

About The Object
Object Name	Jupiter
Object Description	Planet
Distance	The semi-major axis of Jupiter's orbit about the Sun is 5.2 astronomical units (483 million miles or 778 million km). On July 23, 2009 Jupiter was 381 million miles from Earth.
Dimensions	The planet has a diameter of roughly 88,789 miles (142,984 km) at the equator.
About The Data
Data Description	The image was created from Hubble data from proposals and : H. Hammel (Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.), A. Simon-Miller (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), J. Clarke (Boston University), I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley), K. Noll (STScI), G. Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), A. Sanchez-Lavega (University of the Basque Country, Spain), and M. Wong (University of California, Berkley); and proposal : I. de Pater, P. Marcus, X. Asay-Davis, and M. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and C. Go (University of San Carlos).
Instrument	HST>WFC3/UVIS
Exposure Dates	July 23, 2009
Filters	FQ437N (437 nm), Q508N (508nm), and FQ634N (634 nm)
About The Image
Color Info	The image is a composite of separate exposures made by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Three filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: FQ437N (437 nm) Green: Q508N (508nm) Red: FQ634N (634 nm)

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