Detail View: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection: Still from high-clouds Jupiter movie
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Title:
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Still from high-clouds Jupiter movie
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Creator:
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Description:
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This image is one of seven from the narrow-angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft assembled as a brief movie of high-altitude cloud movements on Jupiter. It was taken in early October 2000. The images were taken at a wavelength that is absorbed by methane, one chemical in Jupiter's lower clouds. So, dark areas are relatively free of high clouds, and the camera sees through to the methane in a lower level. Bright areas are places with high, thick clouds that shield the methane below. The area shown covers latitudes from 50 degrees north to 50 degrees south and a 100-degree sweep of longitude. Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona # # # #
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Date:
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12/11/00
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Identifier:
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PIA-02851
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MediaType:
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Image
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MediaType:
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Image
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Year:
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2000
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Contributor:
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JPL Archives
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What:
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Cassini
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Where:
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Where:
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California
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Where:
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Washington, D.C.
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Where:
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Arizona
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