*Description*: The background image is from Hubble Space Telescope and shows the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes on May 11, 2007 (upper left part of Jupiter). The two bright plumes detach in the superimposed small infrared image obtained at the NASA-IRTF facility a month before, on April 5, 2007. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Jupiter Object Description: Planet Distance: The semi-major axis of Jupiter's orbit about the Sun is 5.2 Astronomical Units (778 million km or 483 million miles). Dimensions: The planet has a diameter of roughly 88,789 miles (142,984 km) at the equator. About the Data IRTF Data: Other data used in this composite image were taken on April 5, 2007 with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (a 3.0 meter telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii). The image was taken through a medium-band filter centered at 2.3 microns; six exposures of 1 second each were taken with the NSFCam2 instrument. HST Data: The Hubble data are taken from the HST proposal 10782: I. de Pater, M. Wong, P. Marcus, and X. Asay-Davis (University of California, Berkeley). Instrument: WFPC2 Filters: 410 nm, 502 nm, and 673 nm Exposure Date(s): May 11, 2007 About the Image Image Credit: NASA, ESA, IRTF, and A. Sánchez-Lavega and R. Hueso (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain) Release Date: January 23, 2008 Colors: These images are a composite of separate exposures made by the WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Three filters were used to sample various wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are: 410 nm blue 502 nm green 673 nm red What is a News Nugget? News Nuggets are bulletins from the world of astronomy. Detailed analysis of two continent-sized storms that erupted in Jupiter's atmosphere in March 2007 shows that Jupiter's internal heat plays a significant role in generating atmospheric disturbances. Understanding this outbreak could be the key to unlock the mysteries buried in the deep Jovian atmosphere. An international team coordinated by Agustin S¯_¯_¯_nchez-Lavega from the Universidad del Pa¯_¯_¯_s Vasco in Spain presents its findings about this event in the January 24 issue of the journal Nature. The team monitored the new eruption of cloud activity and its evolution with an unprecedented resolution using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii, and telescopes in the Canary Islands (Spain). A network of smaller telescopes around the world also supported these observations. *News Release Number:*: STScI-2008-06d
NASA Identifier: SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-2008-06d
| Date Taken: | 09.22.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 10.17.2012 23:21 |
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