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Jupiter WFC3/UVIS
This visible-light image of Jupiter was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 21, 2014. CreditsNASA, ESA, and A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2016
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2016-24-3758-image
This visible-light image of Jupiter was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 21, 2014.
Credits
NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (NASA/GSFC)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 kilometers). |
| Dimensions | The planet has a diameter of roughly 88,789 miles (142,984 kilometers) at the equator. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The data are from HST proposal PI: A. Simon (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Orton (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Rogers (University of Cambridge, UK), and M. Wong and I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Instrument | HST>WFC3/UVIS |
| Exposure Dates | April 21, 2014 |
| Filters | F395N (395 nm), F502N (502 nm), and F631N (631 nm) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3/UVIS instrument. Several filters were used to sample various wavelengths. 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: WFC3/UVIS F395N (395 nm) Green: WFC3/UVIS F502N (502 nm) Red: WFC3/UVIS F631N (631 nm) |
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