File:Hubble Views the Galileo Probe Entry Site on Jupiter (1995-46-364).jpg
Size of this preview: 800 × 461 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 184 pixels | 640 × 369 pixels | 850 × 490 pixels.
Original file (850 × 490 pixels, file size: 54 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Summary edit
DescriptionHubble Views the Galileo Probe Entry Site on Jupiter (1995-46-364).jpg |
English: [left] - This Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter was taken on Oct. 5, 1995, when the giant planet was at a distance of 534 million miles (854 million kilometers) from Earth. The arrow points to the predicted site at which the Galileo Probe will enter Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995. At this latitude, the eastward winds have speeds of about 250 miles per hour (110 meters per second). The white oval to the north of the probe site drifts westward at 13 miles per hour (6 meters per second), rolling in the winds which increase sharply toward the equator. The Jupiter image was obtained with the high resolution mode of Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Because the disk of the planet is larger than the field of view of the camera, image processing was used to combine overlapping images from three consecutive orbits to produce this full disk view of the planet. |
Date | 9 November 1995 (upload date) |
Source | Hubble Views the Galileo Probe Entry Site on Jupiter |
Author | Reta Beebe (New Mexico State University), and NASA |
Keywords InfoField | Planetary Atmospheres/Weather; Jupiter; Planets; Solar System |
Licensing edit
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
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. |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 18:45, 21 April 2024 | 850 × 490 (54 KB) | OptimusPrimeBot (talk | contribs) | #Spacemedia - Upload of https://stsci-opo.org/STScI-01EVVG0E5493GABDBKPPN3604Z.jpg via Commons:Spacemedia |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file: