PIA00114: Earth - South America (First Frame of Earth Spin Movie)
This color image of the Earth was obtained by Galileo at about 6:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.3 million miles from the planet during the first of two Earth flybys on its way to Jupiter.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Galileo 
 Spacecraft:  Galileo Orbiter
 Instrument:  Solid-State Imaging 
 Product Size:  800 x 800 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P37330  
 Addition Date:  1996-01-29 
 Primary Data Set:  Galileo EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00114.tif (760.1 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00114.jpg (50.21 kB)  

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This color image of the Earth was obtained by Galileo at about 6:10 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Dec. 11, 1990, when the spacecraft was about 1.3 million miles from the planet during the first of two Earth flybys on its way to Jupiter. The color composite used images taken through the red, green and violet filters. South America is near the center of the picture, and the white, sunlit continent of Antarctica is below. Picturesque weather fronts are visible in the South Atlantic, lower right. This is the first frame of the Galileo Earth spin movie, a 500- frame time-lapse motion picture showing a 25-hour period of Earth's rotation and atmospheric dynamics.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-01-29