PIA23593: Juno's Equator
Thick white clouds are present in this JunoCam image of Jupiter's equatorial zone, taken by NASA's Juno Spacecraft.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Juno 
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  JunoCam 
 Product Size:  1493 x 4508 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  SwRI 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23593.tif (12.81 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23593.jpg (638.1 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Thick white clouds are present in this JunoCam image of Jupiter's equatorial zone. These clouds complicate the interpretation of infrared measurements of water. At microwave frequencies, the same clouds are transparent, allowing Juno's Microwave Radiometer to measure water deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. The image was acquired during Juno's flyby of the gas giant on Dec. 16, 2017.

JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at
https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing.

More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Image Addition Date:
2020-02-18