COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Collection
Record
Title:
Still from high-clouds Jupiter movie
Creator:
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Description:
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 # # # #
Date:
12/11/00
Identifier:
PIA-02851
MediaType:
Image
MediaType:
Image
Year:
2000
Contributor:
JPL Archives
What:
Cassini
Where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Where:
California
Where:
Washington, D.C.
Where:
Arizona
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