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View of Jupiter created from images taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager...
Video: NASA/JHUAPL/SRI
This computer animation shows what Jupiter would look like if viewed from above its...
Video: NASA
An overview of Jupiter's moon Europa, including a discussion about the possibility...
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
An overview of Io, a moon of Jupiter with many active volcanoes.
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Images
Photograph of Jupiter taken by Voyager 1 on February 1, 1979, at a range of 32.7...
NASA/JPL
Crescent view of Jupiter, a composite of three images taken by Voyager 1 on March...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01324)
Computer-generated composite of Jupiter, showing the entire planet's visible surface...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00011)
Computer-generated visualization of a portion of Jupiter's equatorial cloud layers,...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01193)
False-colour mosaic of a part of Jupiter's northern hemisphere, made from images...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00895)
False-colour mosaic of two of the long-lived white ovals south of the Great Red Spot,...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00857)
Jupiter's south pole as seen by the Juno spacecraft.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles
A true-colour image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by the Juno spacecraft.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Bjorn Jonsson
Jupiter's Great Red Spot (top right) and the surrounding region, as seen from Voyager...
NASA/JPL
Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its surroundings, photographed by Voyager 1, February...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00014)
Jupiter's south tropical zone observed by the Juno spacecraft, May 19, 2017. The...
NASA/SWRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran
Waves of clouds on Jupiter as seen by the Juno spacecraft, May 19, 2017.
NASA/SWRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstadt/Sean Doran
Profile of Jupiter's atmosphere as deduced from accelerometer data and direct measurements...
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Jupiter, showing a row of conspicuous atmospheric blemishes in its southern hemisphere...
Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team
The impact of fragment W of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 as observed in four images taken...
NASA/JPL
Image of Jupiter's radiation belts mapped from 13,800-megahertz radio emission measured...
NASA/JPL
Infrared image of Jupiter's southern polar auroras as seen by the Juno spacecraft,...
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM
Jupiter's auroral arcs at its north and south poles, as imaged by the Hubble Space...
AURA/STScI/NASA/JPL
Two close-up views of Jupiter's northern aurora, recorded by the Galileo spacecraft...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01602)
Diagram showing the internal structure of Jupiter from its outer cloud tops down...
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Montage of Jupiter's four Galilean moons—(left to right) Io, Europa, Ganymede, and...
NASA/JPL/DLR
Two views of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter's ice-covered satellite, Europa,...
NASA/JPL/DLR
Jupiter's moon Callisto as observed by the Galileo spacecraft in May 2001. The bright...
NASA/JPL/DLR
A heavily cratered region near Callisto's equator, in an image taken by the Galileo...
NASA/JPL
Jupiter's satellite Ganymede as observed by the Galileo spacecraft in 1996. The darker...
NASA/JPL
Portion of Ganymede's icy surface showing characteristic dark and light grooved terrain,...
JPL/NASA/Brown University
An elaborately patterned area of disrupted ice crust on Europa's surface, shown in...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Jupiter's satellite Io as observed by the Galileo spacecraft, April 4, 1997. The...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Io as observed by the Galileo spacecraft, June 28, 1997. The bluish plume on Io's...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Jupiter's moon Io with Jupiter in the background, photographed by the Voyager 1 spacecraft...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00378)
Before-and-after images of a volcanic eruption on Jupiter's moon Io, made by the...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00744)
Montage of the four innermost moons of Jupiter—(left to right) Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea,...
JPL/NASA/Cornell University
Two versions of a nearly edge-on view of Jupiter's thin main ring in mosaic images...
NASA/JPL
Jupiter's ring system and small inner moons, depicted in a schematic illustration....
Photo NASA/JPL/Cornell University
Jupiter as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 7, 2000.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Giant vortices in Jupiter's southern hemisphere, imaged by the Galileo spacecraft...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01230)
Jupiter's southern hemisphere, showing several dark scars created by collisions of...
NASA/Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team
Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun and largest planet in the solar system. The...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00343)
Jupiter's northern and southern auroras, as observed by the Hubble Space Telescope....
Photo AURA/STScI/NASA/JPL (NASA photo # PIA01254, STScI-PRC98-04)
Lightning storms on JupiterThese...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01636)
False-colour infrared image of the Great Red Spot and its environs, based on observations...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00838)
The eight planets of the solar system and Pluto, in a montage of images scaled to...
NASA/Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
The planets (in comparative size) in order of distance from the Sun.
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Jupiter's ring, illuminated from behind.
JPL/NASA
Four images of Jupiter's moon Amalthea, taken by the Galileo spacecraft between February...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01074)
Callisto, one of the four large, Galilean moons of Jupiter, as recorded by the Galileo...
JPL/NASA/DLR
Crescent view of Europa, one of Jupiter's four large, Galilean moons, in a composite...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
An elaborate tracery of ridged plain on the icy surface of Europa, as imaged by the...
JPL/NASA
Severely fractured area in the equatorial zone of Europa's ice crust, imaged by the...
NASA/JPL
Jupiter's moon Ganymede, a natural-colour view derived from images taken by the Galileo...
JPL/NASA
Jupiter's moon Io, shown in a false-colour composite based on images made by the...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01604)
Volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io captured in the act of erupting by the Galileo orbiter...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA01081)
False-colour global mosaic of Jupiter's moon Io, a composite of images made in visible...
Photo NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00585)
The orbits of the planets and other bodies of the solar system.
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Eclipse, occultation, and transit of a Galilean moon of Jupiter. The designations...
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Interactives
There are 8 planets in our solar system. The 4 smaller ones are rocky. The bigger...
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