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Views of Jupiter
Jupiter is in the news again, this time because its "Baby Red Spot" - a storm less than a year old - appears to have been swallowed up by the massive storm known as the Great Red Spot. This is good occasion to share some of the best photographs of Jupiter and its larger system of rings and moons, as seen by various probes and telescopes over the past 30 years. (16 photos total)
Jupiter's moon Io floats above the cloudtops of Jupiter in this image captured January 1, 2001. The image is deceiving: there are 350,000 kilometers - roughly 2.5 Jupiters - between Io and Jupiter's clouds. Io is about the size of our own moon (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
This image of Jupiter's moon Europa rising above Jupiter was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in February just after it passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto and the outer Solar System. (NASA, Johns Hopkins U. APL, SWRI)
The gibbous phase of Jupiter's moon Europa. The robot spacecraft Galileo captured this image mosaic during its mission orbiting Jupiter from 1995 - 2003. Evidence and images from the Galileo spacecraft, indicated that liquid oceans might exist below the icy surface. (Galileo Project, JPL, NASA; reprocessed by Ted Stryk)
This view of the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa, is a mosaic of two pictures taken by the Solid State Imaging system on board the Galileo spacecraft during a close flyby of Europa on February 20, 1997. The area shown is about 14 kilometers by 17 kilometers (8.7 miles by 10.6 miles), and has a resolution of 20 meters (22 yards) per pixel. One of the youngest features seen in this area is the double ridge cutting across the picture from the lower left to the upper right. This double ridge is about 2.6 kilometers (1.6 miles) wide and stands some 300 meters (330 yards) high. (NASA/JPL/ASU)
A composite of several images taken in several colors by the New Horizons Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera, or MVIC, illustrating the diversity of structures in Jupiter's atmosphere, in colors similar to what someone "riding" on New Horizons would see. It was taken near the terminator, the boundary between day and night, and shows relatively small-scale, turbulent, whirlpool-like structures near the south pole of the planet. The dark "holes" in this region are actually places where there is very little cloud cover, so sunlight is not reflected back to the camera. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
This image, acquired during Galileo's ninth orbit around Jupiter, shows two volcanic plumes on Io. One plume was captured on the bright limb or edge of the moon, erupting over a caldera (volcanic depression) named Pillan Patera. The plume seen by Galileo is 140 kilometers (86 miles) high, and was also detected by the Hubble Space Telescope. The second plume, seen near the terminator, the boundary between day and night, is called Prometheus. The shadow of the airborne plume can be seen extending to the right of the eruption vent. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
A part of the southern hemisphere of Io, seen by the spacecraft Voyager at a range of 74,675 km. In the foreground is gently undulating topography, while in the back-ground are two mountains with their near faces brightly illuminated by the sun. The mountain in the right is approximately 150 km across at its base and its height is probably in excess of 15 km which would make it higher than any mountain on Earth. (NASA/JPL)
This five-frame sequence of New Horizons images captures the giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano. Snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year, this first-ever "movie" of an Io plume clearly shows motion in the cloud of volcanic debris, which extends 330 kilometers (200 miles) above the moon's surface. Only the upper part of the plume is visible from this vantage point - the plume's source is 130 kilometers (80 miles) below the edge of Io's disk, on the far side of the moon. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)
A volcanic plume rises over 300 kilometers above the horizon of Jupiter's moon Io in this image from cameras onboard the New Horizons spacecraft. The volcano, Tvashtar, is marked by the bright glow (about 1 o'clock) at the moon's edge, beyond the terminator or night/day shadow line. The shadow of Io cuts across the plume itself. Also capturing stunning details on the dayside surface, the high resolution image was recorded when the spacecraft was 2.3 million kilometers from Io. Later it was combined with lower resolution color data by astro-imager Sean Walker to produce this sharp portrait of the solar system's most active moon. (NASA, JHU/APL, SwRI - Additional Processing: Sean Walker)
Jupiter's moon Io, seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft against a backdrop of Jupiter's cloud tops, which appear blue in this false-color composite. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
A mosaic of Jupiter's ring system, acquired by NASA's Galileo spacecraft when the Sun was behind the planet, and the spacecraft was in Jupiter's shadow peering back toward the Sun. (NASA/JPL/Cornell University)
The first color movie of Jupiter from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows what it would look like to peel the entire globe of Jupiter, stretch it out on a wall into the form of a rectangular map, and watch its atmosphere evolve with time. The brief movie clip spans 24 Jupiter rotations between Oct. 31 and Nov. 9, 2000. The darker blips that appear are several moons and their shadows. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)
An image of the leading hemisphere of Ganymede seen by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Many fragmented regions of dark terrain split by lanes of bright grooved terrain cover the surface. Several bright young craters can be seen, including a linear chain of craters near the center of the image which may have resulted from the impact of a fragmented comet, similar to comet Shoemaker-Levy/9 which hit Jupiter in 1994. (NASA/JPL/Brown University)
The area of Nicholson Regio and Arbela Sulcus illustrates many of the diverse terrain types on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, as seen in this image taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The image covers an area approximately 89 by 26 kilometers (55by 16 miles). (NASA/JPL/Brown University)
Jupiter's Great Red seen by NASA's Voyager spacecraft. July, 1979 Around the northern boundary a white cloud is seen, which extends to east of the region. The presence of this cloud prevents small cloud vortices from circling the spot in the manner seen in the Voyager 1 encounter. Another white oval cloud (different from the one present in this position three months ago) is seen south of the Great Red Spot. This image was taken on July 6, 1979 from a range of 2,633,003 kilometers. The Red Spot is 20,000 km across. (NASA/JPL)
This true color mosaic of Jupiter was constructed from images taken by the narrow angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft on December 29, 2000, as the spacecraft neared Jupiter during its flyby of the giant planet. It is the most detailed global color portrait of Jupiter ever produced. Although Cassini's camera can see more colors than humans can, Jupiter here looks the way that the human eye would see it. (NASA/JPL/SSI)
More links and information:
On Jupiter, a Battle of the Red Spots, With the Baby Losing - NYTimes.com 7/22
Jupiter - wikipedia entry
nasaimages.org - a new comprehensive database of NASA images
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VERY NICE
Absolutely mindblowing... signs of an awesome God!
JD
I agree with Tom #141. Further exploration and development of our Space program and the World in which we live would bring Hope and Spirit to many people. There will always be poverty in some form or another. There is always another bill to be paid.
But I will pull out my checkbook with a smile on my face, because there is wonder and beauty. And there is Hope....
thank you.
Given what we are doing to Earth, I'm not only willing to pay my $58 a year for the space program, I'll up it to $75. Maybe that will get my progeny a seat on one of the ships.
re: Proof of God; Proof there is no God. Settle down people; it's a planet (at least for now). There is no proof here of God, nor any refute either. But it was humans that made those shots possible.
The best photo's I have ever seen. ..Wow....!!
Thanks for putting them together and sharing
Excellent. Thanks.
When we look at the space and see all those fantastic planets or stars we can understand how small is our earth planet and how smaller are we, human beings.
thanks again.
No words can truly define the beauty of the universe/space or time..
the beautities beyond!
we not know god
It is very goooooooooooooooooooood.....
I LIKE EVRYYYYYY PLANET......
It is very goooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!!!!!
my god~!!!!! jupter~~~!!!
absolutely amazing!!!!!
Never ever be afraid of leaving earth . Heaven's waiting ...
Unreal photo's,!
this is incredible ! can i download these picture ? i want to make a translation of your pic and notes ,then distribute it with your credit on it ?
simply stunning images
Gott weiss ich wil kein engel sein!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
very nice place to live :D
I was mesmerized by the truly breathtaking photos of Jupiter.
AWESOME Masterpiece !
I love all these amazing photos.
Deze foto's zijn de beste die ik ooit onder ogen heb gezien.
Dank je wel,en groeten uit The Netherlands
How truly awesome that we have the technology to send machines to these far off places (and this is within our own planetary system!!) and to get back such incredible images!! And in the scheme of things...our own planetary system is vast but our Milky Way galaxy is even bigger and then we have all these other galaxies outside of the Milky Way !! It boggles the mind!!
Thanks for sharing these great pix!
you have to see these pic man there great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a Jupiter freak.!!!I I would like to dream that we all live in Jupiter and we will all fit and not be crowded, 5 billion biengs can live there someday.
I will give you my blessings for putting this pictures in our dream world.
muito muito lindo fiquei sem ar sу de olhar as fotos incrнvel que universo facinante que sistema solar й este o nosso imaginem o que tem pelo universo а fora gostaria de viver 1000 anos para poder ver todas as descobertas que o ser humana irб fazer........
Grossartig, herrlich!
Vielen Dank aus Bayern, wo man zur Zeit den Jupiter fantastisch strahlen sieht.
Ich war Sterntaler aus dem Maerchen, ein Maedchen mit einem nassen Shirt, staunend, ergeben, bittend und wuenschend.
where can i get theese pictures as a wallpaper for my desktop
labai grazios jupiterio ir jo palydovu nuotraukos...
As we all sit and dream in our own little universe......These pictures make us realize what a big and beautiful not world, but universe is out there for all of us to enjoy and explore. Dream big, as you can attain it if you want it. The pictures are very thought provoking!!!
The meaning of the influence of Jupiter over the earth is completed with its color- full aspect so beautiful like the best moments in the process of living.
ONE DAY,,,,one day indeed, I will sail among all planets.
Thas fer sure,,,,,,,FOR DANG SURE!!!!
THIS IS A WONDERFUL VIEW OF JUPITER & ITS MOON. WHAT A GOD ,WHAT AN UNIVERSE AND WHAT AJUPITER
All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there.
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how marvellous is the universe,it is the grace of ALLAH.
Now we can see it in a more detailed view than before. It's so strange. That huge planet is so strange. Gas giants are so amazing/strange...
I'm glad to see this giant planet. The photo is a nice (and f***ng expensive) work. Well done. Very well....
Watch those giant storms down there.
If some kind of life exist on this planet, what kind of scary/weird life it is? Huge bacterium like glowing gasbags? Huh. We are the flashbags from Earth :-D
T
just fantastic i can say it was.beautiful and just extraordinary
beautiful...love it
amazing its not as good as when we get to pluto.
Subhanallah !!!!!!!
This prove their is someone who created this whole world.......
Ofcourse there is GOD who created this.......
Amazing!!!!!!! wow
wooooooooooh!
breathtaking.
grazie per queste meraviglie della natura che ci fate vedere. un saluto dall'Italia per tutti gli italiani in America
incredibly beautiful!
incredibly beautiful!
AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
мегакруто!
very fascinating !
i think it's amazing
Ju;pitar has been very nice of late, Guess I'm going to get a larger scope. The pics of the moons are incredible. What kind of a lense must they use for such detail.
amazing and actually i think that everyone needs to see this daily, to realise that we're just a tiny creature, sometimes creative, sometimes destructive to this beautiful world... Carpe diem...
greatings nancy from Belgium
Thanks for all presidents since 50's , it really 'a great pace for Human beings" as quoted by Armstrong -- the first astronaut who step onto the surface of the moon.
Greeting from Greg Lam --- Hong Kong SAR
this is just the coolist sight to see. I hope one day i can see it up close with one of my best friends!
oon vaght migan khoda nist...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????
...la tierra es mas linda
216. To deny God is to deny creation. The order of the heavens is possible only as the work of a Creator. God caused the "big bang" from which all things began. Otherwise there was nothing, then there was something? I think not..
THESE PICS ARE MAGNIFICENT, MAJESTIC, AND SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!
muy lindas fotos...espectaculares !!!! muchas gracias por compartirlas.
Julieta from Comodoro Rivadavia - Argentina
awesome pictures!
increibles imбgenes........
Wow! And then some! It will be a hundred years before man can make this journey.
No place is beautifull like our earth.
Waoooo ya dona ki sab say beautiful plase ha
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fabulus
Fine and i like your picture
I guess they're OK
; )
It is simply Incredible
I love looking at Jupiter through my telescope
can we live on the planet?
this website roks!!!!
jupiter is soo amazing!! simple breath taking!
they are AMAZING PICTURES
i love jupitr it is sooooooooooooooo cool grrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttttttttttt
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WOW!!! jupiter is very big and it move so fast. Do it have lots of winds?
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wow this will really help me in science
WOW, Allah is only the creator of the universe.
Jupiter rotates so fast, even it's 11 times larger then earth, but it rotates around it's axis in just 10 hours!
it's amasing wow this is the best site ever
i like the moon
it is weird, isn't it, that all of the universe appears beautiful to us although we only descend from earth. it's all the same maths and we find the most stunning eyes (geared for our senses of truth and beauty) in unreachable faraway places
this is coo
awsome
i agree with comment 171
very interesting.
nice grafics or pictures.
Some of you commenters need better education. some things are unexplainable, but that doesn't mean that there HAS to be a god..... we can only further our UNDERSTANDING of the universe, knowledge is power.
Ахуеть просто!
вопрос.....для русскоязычных ...... может кто знает - а что планируется касаемо миссии исследования Титана - спутника Сатурна? есть новости?
Fascinante. Te quedas sin aliento. Al contemplar estas imбgenes se siente uno pequeсo, estъpido y tambiйn mezquino. No es posible que seamos los ъnicos. Si fuera asн, quй desperdicio.
jupiter is awesome thats all i have to say
this is greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat awesome images putup more
put a picture with jupitur and its moons
omg!!!!!!!!! i cant believe it its so amazing !
Awsome. Cool. Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
one of yuur pictures is wavy its awesome.
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wow this planet is so amazing this will definately help me in science