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  • Jupiter Montage

    • 22 Nov 2011
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    "This montage of New Horizons images shows Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, and were taken during the spacecraft's Jupiter flyby in early 2007.

    The image of Jupiter is an infrared color composite taken by the spacecraft's near-infrared imaging spectrometer, the Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array.

    The infrared wavelengths used highlight variations in the altitude of the Jovian cloud tops, with blue denoting high-altitude clouds and hazes, and red indicating deeper clouds.

    The prominent bluish-white oval is the Great Red Spot. The observation was made at a solar phase angle of 75 degrees but has been projected onto a crescent to remove distortion caused by Jupiter's rotation during the scan

    The image of Io is an approximately true-color composite taken by the panchromatic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager with color information provided by the Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera.

    The image shows a major eruption in progress on Io's night side, at the northern volcano Tvashtar. Incandescent lava glows red beneath a volcanic plume, whose uppermost portions are illuminated by sunlight. The plume appears blue due to scattering of light by small particles within it."
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  • Jupiter's Clouds from New Horizons

    • 25 Oct 2011
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    "The New Horizons spacecraft took some stunning images of Jupiter on its way out to Pluto. Famous for its Great Red Spot, Jupiter is also known for its regular, equatorial cloud bands, visible through even modest sized telescopes. The above image, horizontally compressed, was taken in 2007 near Jupiter's terminator and shows the Jovian giant's wide diversity of cloud patterns. On the far left are clouds closest to Jupiter's South Pole. Here turbulent whirlpools and swirls are seen in a dark region, dubbed a belt, that rings the planet. Even light colored regions, called zones, show tremendous structure, complete with complex wave patterns. The energy that drives these waves surely comes from below. New Horizons is the fastest space probe ever launched, has now passed the orbits of Saturn and Uranus and is on track to reach Pluto in 2015."
    via apod.nasa.gov

     

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  • A Closer Look at Europa

    • 9 Jun 2011
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    "This closer look at the ice surface of Europa shows a white area that is covered by a fine dust of ice particles while the brown area "has been painted by mineral contaminants carried and spread by water vapor released from below the crust when it was disrupted," according to NASA."  
    via smartplanet.com

     

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  • Io: The Prometheus Plume

    • 22 May 2011
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    • 22May11 Astronomy Jupiter Moons
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    "What's happening on Jupiter's moon Io? Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in this color composite image from the robotic Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. At the image top, over Io's limb, a bluish plume rises about 140 kilometers above the surface of a volcanic caldera known as Pillan Patera. In the image middle, near the night/day shadow line, the ring shaped Prometheus plume is seen rising about 75 kilometers above Io while casting a shadow below the volcanic vent. Named for the Greek god who gave mortals fire, the Prometheus plume is visible in every image ever made of the region dating back to the Voyager flybys of 1979 - presenting the possibility that this plume has been continuously active for at least 18 years. The above digitally sharpened image of Io was originally recorded in 1997 from a distance of about 600,000 kilometers. Recent analyses of Galileo data has uncovered evidence of a magma ocean beneath Io's surface."  
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  • Hubble Finds Jupiter’s Missing Stripe

    • 16 Jun 2010
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  • Jupiter sounds (so strange!) NASA-Voyager recording

    • 1 Jun 2010
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  • Jupiter loses one of its stripes ! Why ?

    • 23 May 2010
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  • A Fresh Look at Jupiter's Great Red Spot

    • 10 May 2010
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  • The Aurora around the North Pole of the Planet Jupiter

    • 12 Feb 2010
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