File:Rare Image of Jupiter and Its Moon, Io (1996-30-442).tiff
Rare_Image_of_Jupiter_and_Its_Moon,_Io_(1996-30-442).tiff (720 × 600 pixels, file size: 227 KB, MIME type: image/tiff)
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editDescriptionRare Image of Jupiter and Its Moon, Io (1996-30-442).tiff |
English: This image, shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet, on July 24, 1996. The conspicuous black spot on Jupiter is Io's shadow. The shadow is about the size of Io (3,640 kilometers or 2,262 miles across) and sweeps across the face of Jupiter at 17 kilometers per second (38,000 miles per hour). The smallest details visible on Io and Jupiter are about 100 miles across. Bright patches visible on Io are regions of sulfur dioxide frost. Io is roughly the size of Earth's moon, but 2,000 times farther away. This is one of a series of images of Io taken by Hubble to complement the close-up images currently being taken by the Galileo spacecraft now orbiting Jupiter. Though the Galileo images show much finer detail, Hubble provides complementary information because it can observe Io at ultraviolet wavelengths not seen by Galileo, can observe Io at different times than Galileo, and can view Io under more consistent viewing conditions. The image was taken at violet wavelengths, with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, in PC mode. |
Date | 4 October 1996 (upload date) |
Source | Rare Image of Jupiter and Its Moon, Io |
Author | Credit: J. Spencer (Lowell Observatory) and NASA |
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Keywords InfoField | Jupiter; Moons; Planets; Solar System |
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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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Width | 720 px |
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Height | 600 px |
Bits per component | 8 |
Compression scheme | LZW |
Pixel composition | Palette |
Orientation | Normal |
Number of components | 1 |
Number of rows per strip | 11 |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Data arrangement | chunky format |