Jupiter's Great Red Spot in 2009

Esahubble_heic1410d_1024

esahubble_heic1410d May 15th, 2014

Credit: NASA, ESA and H. Hammel (SSI and AURA)

An image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken in 2009 with Hubble's WFC3 camera. The spots diameter here is just under 18 000km.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

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

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFC3) Optical (R) 634.0 nm
Green Hubble (WFC3) Optical (B) 508.0 nm
Blue Hubble (WFC3) Ultraviolet (U) 437.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
Esahubble_heic1410d_1280
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ID
heic1410d
Subject Category
A.1  
Subject Name
Great Red Spot, Jupiter
Credits
NASA, ESA and H. Hammel (SSI and AURA)
Release Date
2014-05-15T16:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1410d/
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
634, 508, 437
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
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
heic1410d
Metadata Date
2014-05-06T10:05:44-04:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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