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PIA02871: Storm Merger on Jupiter

Taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, a small white spot, probably a thunderstorm, lies to the south of a larger, brown spot on Jupiter.

Target Name:	Jupiter
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Cassini-Huygens
Spacecraft:	Cassini Orbiter
Instrument:	Imaging Science Subsystem
Product Size:	720 x 486 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	CICLOPS / University of Arizona
Primary Data Set:	Cassini
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA02871.tif (795.6 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA02871.jpg (20.62 kB)

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At the beginning of this movie clip, created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, a small white spot, probably a thunderstorm, lies to the south of a larger, brown spot on Jupiter. The white spot moves counterclockwise around the brown spot and breaks up. A part of the white spot is absorbed by the brown spot.

Cassini is a cooperative mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Cassini for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Image Addition Date:

2000-12-30