Jupiter and Its Stunning Southern Hemisphere is a photograph by Eric Glaser which was uploaded on January 12th, 2018.
Jupiter and Its Stunning Southern Hemisphere
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by Eric Glaser
Title
Jupiter and Its Stunning Southern Hemisphere
Artist
Eric Glaser
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
"Jupiter’s Stunning Southern Hemisphere"
See Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in beautiful detail in this new image taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in the “String of Pearls,” one of eight massive rotating storms at 40 degrees south latitude on the gas giant planet.
The image was taken on Oct. 24, 2017 at 11:11 a.m. PDT (2:11 p.m. EDT), as Juno performed its ninth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was 20,577 miles (33,115 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of minus 52.96 degrees. The spatial scale in this image is 13.86 miles/pixel (22.3 kilometers/pixel).
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.
JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at:
www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam
More information about Juno is at:
https://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu
Image and Text Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/ Seán Doran
Additional image editing by Eric Glaser
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January 12th, 2018