Jupiter and its shrunken Great Red Spot

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esahubble_heic1410a May 15th, 2014

Credit: Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) Acknowledgement: C. Go Science Credit: A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Rogers (University of Cambridge, UK), and M. Wong and I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley)

This full-disc image of Jupiter was taken on 21 April 2014 with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Great Red Spot Jupiter
Subject - Solar System
Planet

Color Mapping Details Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFC3) Optical (R) 631.0 nm
Green Hubble (WFC3) Optical (B) 502.0 nm
Blue Hubble (WFC3) Ultraviolet (U) 395.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
Esahubble_heic1410a_1280
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ID
heic1410a
Subject Category
A.1  
Subject Name
Great Red Spot, Jupiter
Credits
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) Acknowledgement: C. Go Science Credit: A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Rogers (University of Cambridge, UK), and M. Wong and I. de Pater (University of California, Berkeley)
Release Date
2014-05-15T16:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
Bandpass
R, B, U
Central Wavelength
631, 502, 395
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
1000.0, 1000.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
heic1410a
Metadata Date
2014-05-06T10:00:35-04:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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