Jupiter Images

Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay First-time Visitors: Please visit Site Map and Disclaimer. Use "Back" to return here.

	Pioneer image, 1973. Crude by later standards, but our first close-ups of Jupiter.
	Voyager image with earth for scale.

Impact of Schumacher-Levy 9


	Galileo, closing in on Jupiter, was in a position to image the impacts directly, though from a great distance.
	In a wavelength of infrared strongly absorbed by methane, Jupiter appears dark. A fresh impact has just rotated into view. Hot material high in Jupiter's atmosphere emits copious infrared that swamps the detector.
	Another impact later in the series. Previous impacts show as a string of glowing dots in infrared.

Created 6 April 1999, Last Update 14 December 2009

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