Technical facts about this news release:
| About the Object |
| Object Name: |
Jupiter |
| Object Description: |
Planet |
| Distance: |
The semi-major axis of Jupiter's orbit about the sun is 5.2 Astronomical Units (778 million km or 483 million miles). |
| Dimensions: |
The planet has a diameter of roughly 88,789 miles (142,984 km) at the equator. |
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| About the Data |
| Data Description: |
This image was created from HST data from proposal 10783: A. Simon-Miller (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), G. Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and N. Chanover (New Mexico State University); and proposal 10782: I. de Pater, M. Wong, P. Marcus, X. Asay-Davis (University of California - Berkeley), and C. Go, (Astronomical League of the Philippines). |
| Proposal: |
10783 |
10782 |
| Instrument: |
ACS/HRC |
ACS/HRC and ACS/WFC |
| Exposure Date(s): |
April 8, 2006 |
April 16/24/25, 2006 |
| Exposure Time: |
630 seconds |
548 seconds |
| Filters: |
220nm, 250nm, 330nm, 435nm, 550nm, 656nm, 658nm, 892nm |
330nm, 435nm, 475nm, 502nm, 550nm, 656nm, 658nm, 892nm |
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| About the Image |
| Image Credit: |
NASA, ESA, I. de Pater and M. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Release Date: |
May 4, 2006 |
| Orientation: |
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