Jupiter OPAL 2024
stsci_2024-009b March 14th, 2024
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
This 12-panel series of Hubble Space Telescope images, taken January 5-6, 2024, presents snapshots of a full rotation of the giant planet Jupiter. The Great Red Spot can be used to measure the planet's real rotation rate of nearly 10 hours. The innermost Galilean satellite, Io is seen in several frames, along with its shadow crossing over Jupiter's cloud tops. Hubble monitors Jupiter and the other outer Solar System planets every year under the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program (OPAL).
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-009
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://stsci.edu/copyright/
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- ID
- 2024-009b
- Subject Category
- A.1.1.2
- Subject Name
- Jupiter
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, STScI, Amy Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
- Release Date
- 2024-03-14
- Lightyears
- 7.2e-5
- Redshift
- 7.2e-5
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-009
- Type
- Collage
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- distance in lightyears; At time of observation, Jupiter was 4.56 AU from Earth (423.5 million mi, 681.5 million km)
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3/UVIS, WFC3/UVIS, WFC3/UVIS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 395, 502, 658
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- 33.41415, 12.1977
- Reference Dimension
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
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- Position
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://stsci.edu
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://stsci.edu/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p24009b-f-8810x6910.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2024-009/STSCI-H-p24009b-f-8810x6910.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-13T11:55:30-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
