Jupiter
Date: 10 October 1991
Satellite: Hubble
Depicts: Jupiter
Copyright: NASA/ESA
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This is the first true-color photograph of the giant planet Jupiter from the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. All features in this image are cloud formations in the atmosphere of Jupiter, which contain small crystals of frozen ammonia and traces of colorful chemical compounds of carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus. The temperatures of the clouds are extremely cold, about -175 °C.
Last Update: 1 September 2019