Infrared-Light Image of Jupiter – Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF)

An image of Jupiter in infrared-light from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on April 5, 2007.

About the data

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.