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Compass and Scale Image for Jupiter Great Red Spot
CreditsIllustration: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2014
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2014-24-3371-image
Credits
Illustration: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI)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). |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | The Jupiter images are from HST proposals: 1995 Data: PI: R. Beebe (New Mexico State University), M. Belton (NOAO/AURA), C. Cunningham (Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science), P. Gierasch (Cornell University), A. Ingersoll (Caltech), G. Orton (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Pollack (NASA Ames Research Center), and K. Rages (SETI Institute) 2009 Data: PI: H. Hammel (Space Science Institute), A. Simon (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), T. Clarke (Boston University), I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley), K. Noll (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Orton (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory), A. Sanchez-Lavega (Universidad del País Vasco), and M. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) 2014 Data: 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) |
| Exposure Dates | 1995, 2009, 2014 |
| Filters | WFPC2 (1995): F410M, F555W, and F673N WFC3/UVIS (2009): FQ437N, FQ508N, and FQ634N WFC3/UVIS (2014): F395N, F502W, and F631N |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | 1995 image: Blue: F410M, Green: F555W, Red: F673N 2009 image: Blue: FQ437N, Green: FQ508N, Red: FQ634N 2014 image: Blue: F395N, Green: F502W, Red: F631N |
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