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Encounter with Jupiter

5 February 2004

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Ulysses in flight configuration passing by Jupiter.

Credits: ESA/Dave Hardy

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System. Note the Great Red Spot, which is a giant gas storm on Jupiter. This storm is said to be more than 300 000 years old.

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Jupiter's aurora shows luminescent gases

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The Hubble telescope's sharp view of the rapid, spectacular dance of luminescent gases high in Jupiter's atmosphere - better known as aurora - is allowing astronomers to map Jupiter's immense magnetic field and better understand how it generates such phenomena. The aurorae are the bright, circular features at the top and bottom of the planet.

Credits: John T. Clarke and Gilda E. Ballester (University of Michigan), John Trauger and Robin Evans (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and NASA

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