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Clouds
[edit | edit source]"NASA's Juno spacecraft was a little more than one Earth diameter from Jupiter when it captured this mind-bending, color-enhanced view of the planet's tumultuous atmosphere."[1]
"Jupiter completely fills the image, with only a hint of the terminator (where daylight fades to night) in the upper right corner, and no visible limb (the curved edge of the planet)."[1]
"Juno took this image of colorful, turbulent clouds in Jupiter's northern hemisphere on Dec. 16, 2017 at 9:43 a.m. PST (12:43 p.m. EST) from 8,292 miles (13,345 kilometers) above the tops of Jupiter's clouds, at a latitude of 48.9 degrees."[1]
"The spatial scale in this image is 5.8 miles/pixel (9.3 kilometers/pixel)."[1]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Scott Bolton (16 December 2017). PIA21973: High Above Jupiter's Clouds. Pasadena, California USA: NASA/JPL. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21973. Retrieved 29 June 2018.