Galileo Probe Entry Site on Jupiter

Esahubble_opo9546b_1024

esahubble_opo9546b November 9th, 1995

Credit: Reta Beebe (New Mexico State University), and NASA/ESA

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).

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9546b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Jupiter
Subject - Solar System
Planet > Type > Gas Giant

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Hubble (WFPC2) -
Esahubble_opo9546b_1280
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ID
opo9546b
Subject Category
A.1.1.2  
Subject Name
Jupiter
Credits
Reta Beebe (New Mexico State University), and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1995-11-09T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9546b/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
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N/A
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2
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Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
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Reference Pixel
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Rotation
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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
opo9546b
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:45:10+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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