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 | Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter The proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter would for the first time use a nuclear fision reactor. The orbiter would first visit Callisto, then Ganymede and finally Europa. One of its objectives would be to search for signs of life. Photo Platform: Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter
Date Released: February 3, 2003 - movie |
 | Jupiter True/False Color Image These color composite frames of the mid-section of Jupiter were of narrow angle
images acquired on December 31, 2000, a day after Cassini's closest approach to
the planet. The smallest features in these frames are roughly ~ 60 kilometers. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: January 22, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Io Transit The Galilean satellite Io floats above the cloudtops of Jupiter in this image
captured on the dawn of the new millennium, January 1, 2001 10:00 UTC
(spacecraft time), two days after Cassini's closest approach. The image is
deceiving: there are 350,000 kilometers -- roughly 2.5 Jupiters -- between Io
and Jupiter's clouds. Io is the size of our Moon, and Jupiter is very big. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: January 22, 2001 small - medium - download large |
 | Jupiter's High Latitudes This movie clip (of which the release image is a still frame), created from images
taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows a high-latitude area of Jupiter. At latitudes above
45 degrees, the banded appearance of Jupiter's clouds gives way to a more mottled
appearance. The cause of this transition is not fully understood. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: January 3, 2001 small - medium - download large - movie |
 | Jupiter Hot Spot In this movie clip (of which the release image is a still frame), created from images
taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the blue region in the center is a relatively cloud- free
area where thermal radiation from warmer, deeper levels emerges. NASA's Galileo probe in
1995 entered Jupiter's atmosphere in a similar area. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: January 3, 2001 small - medium - download large - movie |
 | Small Storms Near Great Red Spot This movie clip (of which the release image is a still frame), created from images
taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, shows small spots slipping over each other east of
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. These small storms are born in the turbulent region west of the Great
Red Spot, then move westward all the way around the planet until they again encounter the Red
Spot from the east, when they are often swallowed by the Red Spot. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: January 3, 2001 small - medium - download large - movie |
 | High Resolution Globe of Jupiter A true color simulated view of Jupiter made from images taken on December 7.
At that time, 4 images were necessary to cover the globe of Jupiter. Those images have been
mosaicked together and composited to make a true color cylindrical map. The map was
projected onto an oblate spheroid to illustrate what Jupiter would have looked like if the
cameras had a field of view large enough to capture the entire planet. The resolution is ~ 144
km/pixel. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: December 30, 2000 small - medium - download large |
 | Animated Jupiter What might it look like if one could unpeel the entire globe of Jupiter, stretch it
out on a wall into the form of a rectangular map, and watch its atmosphere evolve with time?
This movie spanning 24 Jupiter rotations between October 31 and November 9, 2000 answers
that question. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: December 25, 2000 small - medium - download large - animation |
 | Ganymede and Jupiter The Galilean satellite, Ganymede, which orbits Jupiter between Europa and outermost Callisto, is captured here alongside the planet in a
true color narrow angle composite from December 3, 2000, 00:41 UTC (spacecraft time.)
Ganymede is the largest satellite in the solar system, larger than the planet Mercury, and even larger than Saturn's
largest satellite Titan. Both Ganymede and Titan have greater surface area than the entire Eurasian continent on our planet.
The distance from the spacecraft to Ganymede is 26.5 million km. The smallest visible features are about 160 km across. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: December 22, 2000 small - medium - download large |
 | Europa, Callisto and Jupiter One moment in an ancient, orbital dance is caught in this color picture taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 7, 2000, just as two of Jupiter's
four major moons, Europa and Callisto, were nearly perfectly aligned with each other and the center of the planet. Photo Platform: Cassini
Date Released: December 21, 2000 small - medium - download large |
 | Hubble Space Telescope Resolves Volcanoes on Io This picture is a composite of a black and white near infrared image of Jupiter and its satellite Io and a color image of Io at shorter wavelengths taken
at almost the same time on March 5, 1994. These are the first images of a giant planet or its satellites taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
(HST) since the repair mission in December 1993. Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: May 16, 1994 small - medium - download large |
 | Satellite Footprints Seen In Jupiter Aurora As Cassini zooms towards the Jupiter, a new Hubble Space Telescope image released today shows a "close-up view of an electric-blue aurora that is eerily glowing one half billion miles away on the giant planet Jupiter. The image shows the
main oval of the aurora, which is centered on the magnetic north pole, plus more diffuse emissions inside the polar cap." Photo Platform: Hubble
Date Released: December 14, 2000 small - medium - download large |
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