Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Watch Jupiter Rotate
Explanation:
What would it be like to coast by Jupiter and watch it rotate? This was just the experience of the New Horizons [ http://pluto.jhuapl…] spacecraft as it approached and flew by Jupiter earlier this year. Clicking [ http://www.bergen.o…] on the image will bring up a movie of what the robotic spacecraft saw. Visible above [ http://pluto.jhuapl…] in the extensive atmosphere [ http://csep10.phys.…] of the Solar System's largest planet are bands and belts [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] of light and dark clouds, as well as giant rotating storm systems [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] seen as ovals [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Other movies compiled by New Horizons [ http://pluto.jhuapl…] and other passing spacecraft [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] have captured the clouds swirling [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and moving relative to themselves. Jupiter [ http://en.wikipedia…] has a diameter of about eleven times that of our Earth, and rotates once in about 10 hours. The robotic New Horizons [ http://en.wikipedia…] spacecraft continues to speed toward the outer Solar System [ http://www.nineplan…] where it is expected to approach Pluto [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in 2015.
Credit and Copyright:
NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/], Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [ http://www.jhuapl.e…], Southwest Research Institute [ http://www.swri.edu/]
facet_when:
2015
facet_where:
Pluto
facet_where:
Jupiter
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Pluto
facet_what:
Jupiter
facet_what:
New Horizons
facet_when_year:
2015
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap070312

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