PIA09236: A Day on Jupiter (Animation)
A Day on Jupiter (Animation)
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Target Name: Jupiter
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: New Horizons
Spacecraft: New Horizons
Instrument: LORRI
Product Size: 438 samples x 263 lines
Produced By: Johns Hopkins University/APL
Full-Res TIFF: PIA09236.tif (115.5 kB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA09236.jpg (4.937 kB)

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This "movie" strings 11 images of Jupiter captured by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on January 9, 2007, when the spacecraft was about 80 million kilometers (49.6 million miles) from the giant planet. The sequence covers a full 10-hour rotation of Jupiter, during which the moons Ganymede and Io -- as well as the shadows they cast on Jupiter -- move across the camera's field of view.

Image Credit:
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute