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2-D Atmosphere Movie
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft took narrow-angle images of Jupiter's outer atmosphere, showing the giant planet as if it were constantly bathed in sunlight. To make this smooth movie sequence (of which the release image is a still frame), projections of the movement of the atmosphere were inserted between frames, using data from a previous mission to Jupiter, NASA's Voyager spacecraft. The movie shows one frame every 1.1 hours, over 10 days, from October 31 to November 9, 2000.
Background Info:
Cassini is a cooperative mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Cassini for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C.
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Jupiter | |
| System | Jupiter | |
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | Cassini-Huygens | Voyager |
| Instrument Host | Cassini Orbiter | |
| Host Type | Orbiter | Flyby Spacecraft |
| Instrument | Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) | |
| Detector | Narrow Angle Camera | |
| Extra Keywords | Atmosphere, Color, Visual | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2000-12-30 | |
| Date in Caption | 2000-11-09 | |
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL/University of Arizona | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02867 | |
| Identifier | PIA02867 | |
