Hubble/IRTF Composite Image of Jupiter Storms

The background image is from Hubble Space Telescope and shows the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes on May 11, 2007 (upper left part of Jupiter). The two bright plumes detach in the superimposed small infrared image obtained at the NASA-IRTF facility a month before, on April 5, 2007.

About the colours

WFPC2 image: Blue: F410 nm Green: F502 nm Red: F673 nm

About the data

IRTF Data (inset): 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).