File:The Giant Planet Jupiter (1994-26-169).jpg

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An image of Jupiter taken on May 18, 1994, by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2) in wide field mode aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, when the giant planet was at a distance of 420 million miles (670 million km) from Earth.

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English: An image of Jupiter taken on May 18, 1994, by the Wide Field & Planetary Camera-2 (WFPC-2) in wide field mode aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, when the giant planet was at a distance of 420 million miles (670 million km) from Earth. This "true-color" picture was assembled from separate HST exposures in red, blue, and green light. Jupiter's rotation between exposures creates the blue and red fringe on either side of the disk. HST can resolve details in Jupiter's magnificent cloud belts and zones as small as 200 miles (320 km) across (wide field mode). This detailed view is only surpassed by images from spacecraft that have traveled to Jupiter. The dark spot on the disk of Jupiter is the shadow of the inner moon Io. This volcanic moon appears as an orange and yellow disk just to the upper right of the shadow. Though Io is approximately the size of Earth's Moon (but 2,000 times further away), HST can resolve surface details.
Date 7 July 1994 (upload date)
Source The Giant Planet Jupiter
Author Credit: NASA, ESA, H. Weaver and E. Smith (STScI) and J. Trauger and R. Evans (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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Jupiter; Planets; Solar System

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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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