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
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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