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Jupiter - South Polar Map

Spacecraft

Cassini Orbiter

 

Instrument

Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle

 

Enhanced version (intensification)

 

Image Credit :

NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute/Thomas Thomopoulos

 

Map : credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

Released: March 27, 2006 (PIA 07782, 07783, 07784)

 

"These color maps of Jupiter were constructed from images taken by the narrow-angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 11 and 12, 2000, as the spacecraft neared Jupiter during its flyby of the giant planet".

 

www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia07784-cassinis-best-maps-of-ju...

 

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