Jupiter From Space

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Jupiter from space. One spacecraft nasa s juno orbiter is currently exploring this giant world. Hubble s wide field camera 3 observed jupiter when the planet was 400 million miles 640 million kilometers from earth when jupiter was near opposition or almost directly opposite the sun in. Jupiter s iconic great red spot is a giant storm bigger than earth that has raged for hundreds of years. Video sharing camera phone video phone free upload.
Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system s beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of jupiter. In 1610 astronomer galileo galilei used a new invention called the telescope to look at jupiter and discovered the first moons known to exist beyond earth. Nasa gov brings you the latest images videos and news from america s space agency. Jupiter s familiar stripes and swirls are actually cold windy clouds of ammonia and water floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium.
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and the largest in the solar system. Images from nasa s juno mission. The discovery ended incorrect ancient belief that everything including the sun and other planets orbited the earth. It is a gas giant with a mass one thousandth that of the sun but two and a half times that of all the other planets in the solar system combined.
The european space agency s mars express spacecraft spotted jupiter and saturn in conjunction from its orbit around the red planet.