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PIA09922: Ammonia Clouds on Jupiter

In this frame from a movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds (appearing as bright blue areas) as they form and disperse.

Target Name:	Jupiter
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	New Horizons
Spacecraft:	New Horizons
Instrument:	LEISA
Product Size:	224 x 273 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Johns Hopkins University/APL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA09922.tif (183.9 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA09922.jpg (7.479 kB)

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Ammonia Ice Clouds on Jupiter

In this movie, put together from false-color images taken by the New Horizons Ralph instrument as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in early 2007, show ammonia clouds (appearing as bright blue areas) as they form and disperse over five successive Jupiter "days." Scientists noted how the larger cloud travels along with a small, local deep hole.

Image Credit:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Image Addition Date:

2007-10-09