Pictures of the planet Jupiter
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A false-color picture of Jupiter by Voyager. The light-colored clouds are rising up from within Jupiter. The dark clouds are descending lower down into the planet.
Jupiter has a large, strong magnetic field. Its magnetosphere (the area around the planet that attracts particles because of its magnetic field) is millions of kilometers in diameter.
Rectangular map of Jupiter from a movie made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the year 2000.
Pictures of the Cassini spacecraft
This rectangular map stretches out the areas close to the north and south poles to a great extent.
Animation movie using the rectangular map above.
This AVI movie shows Jupiter making one full rotation.
Filesize: Only 422 Kilobytes in size - less than half a Megabyte.
Picture of Jupiter by NASA's Cassini spacecraft taken on December 7, 2000.
Jupiter is oblate meaning: is, it fattens out at the equator and flattens at the poles. (This is not easy to see in this picture). Jupiter is oblate because it rotates so fast. (See the next picture and description.)
 Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Nine pictures of Jupiter by Cassini spacecraft. Jupiter rotates once on its own axis in about 10 hours. The Great Red Spot is just visible on the left limb of Jupiter on the third picture. The forth picture - taken 1 hour and 40 minutes later - shows just how far the Great Red Spot moved in that time.
Six pictures of Jupiter taken by the Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on the Galileo spacecraft. The first and last photographs in the top row show the deepest clouds in the atmosphere. The middle photograph shows the clouds at higher altitudes on Jupiter. It is clear from this photograph that the Great Red Spot is a high altitude cloud.
Picture of the Galileo spacecraft at Jupiter
The red areas in the last photograph on the bottom row is high temperatures clouds deep in the atmosphere. Green are cooler higher level clouds. Deeper within Jupiter the clouds and gases gets denser and denser.
Stereoscopic 3D (3 dimensional) image pairs of Jupiter. You do NOT need red/blue 3D glasses to view these images in 3D. Just click the image below to read the instructions.
Some questions about these pictures of the planet Jupiter
Lets see what you have learned from these pictures ...
- What can be seen on Jupiter?
- Describe what Jupiter looks like.
- How long does Jupiter take to rotate on its axis?
- Are the clouds of Jupiter all at the same height?
- Where are Jupiter's Great Red Spot ... Close to the core of Jupiter or 'high among the highest clouds'?
- What is a magnetosphere?
- What is oblate? Why is Jupiter oblate?
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