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PIA23805: Jupiter's Racing Stripes
This enhanced-color image from NASA's Juno spacecraft captures the striking cloud bands of Jupiter's southern latitudes.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Juno 
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  JunoCam 
 Product Size:  4363 x 5831 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  SwRI 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23805.tif (55.77 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23805.jpg (1.295 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This enhanced-color image from NASA's Juno spacecraft captures the striking cloud bands of Jupiter's southern latitudes. Jupiter is not only the largest planet in the solar system, it also rotates at the fastest rate, completing a full day in just 10 hours. This rapid spinning creates strong jet streams, separating Jupiter's clouds into bright zones and dark belts that wrap around the planet.

Citizen scientist David Marriott created this image with data from the JunoCam instrument. The original image was taken on April 10, 2020, at 7:35 a.m. PDT (10:35 a.m. EDT) as the Juno spacecraft performed its 26th close flyby of the planet. At the time the image was taken, Juno was about 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) from the planet's cloud tops at a latitude of about 58 degrees south.

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 http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

Image Credit:
Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Image processing by David Marriott

Image Addition Date:
2020-05-21