PIA19643: Spinning Jupiter and Global Map


Spinning Jupiter and Global Map

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