Visible-Light Image of Jupiter – Hubble Space Telescope

An image of Jupiter in visible-light from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) on May 11, 2007 showing the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes at the upper left part of Jupiter.

About the colours

Blue: F410 nm Green: F502 nm Red: F673 nm

About the data

IRTF Data: Other data used in this composite image were taken on April 5, 2007 with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (a 3.0 meter telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii). The image was taken through a medium-band filter centered at 2.3 microns; six exposures of 1 second each were taken with the NSFCam2 instrument.

HST Data: HST Proposal: 10782 I. de Pater, M. Wong, P. Marcus, and X. Asay-Davis (University of California, Berkeley).