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Spinning Jupiter and Global Map
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Caption:
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Scientists produced new global maps of Jupiter using the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. One color map is shown here, projected onto a globe and as a flat image.
Background Info:
Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 3 (WFPC3) was developed jointly by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland; the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; and Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, Boulder, Colorado.
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Jupiter | |
| System | ||
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | Hubble Space Telescope (HST) | |
| Instrument Host | Hubble Space Telescope | |
| Host Type | Space Telescope | |
| Instrument | WFPC3 | Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) |
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Color, Map, Movie, Rotation | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 2015-10-13 | |
| Date in Caption | ||
| Image Credit | NASA/ESA/GSFC/UCBerkeley/JPL-Caltech/STScI | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19643 | |
| Identifier | PIA19643 | |
