           APOD: 2018 February 21 - Jupiter in Infrared from Hubble

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                               2018 February 21
                                      [2]
                       Jupiter in Infrared from Hubble
  Image Credit: NASA [3] , ESA [4] , Hubble [5] ; Data: Michael Wong [6] (UC
   Berkeley [7] ) et al. [8] ; Processing & License [9] : Judy Schmidt [10]

Explanation: Jupiter looks a bit different in infrared light. To better
understand Jupiter [11] 's cloud motions and to help NASA's robotic Juno [12]
spacecraft understand the Hubble Space Telescope [13]  is being directed to
regularly image [14]  the entire Jovian giant. The colors of Jupiter being
monitored [15]  go beyond the normal human visual range to include both
ultraviolet [16]  and infrared [17]  light. Featured here [18]  in 2016, three
bands of near-infrared [19]  light have been digitally reassigned into a
mapped color image. Jupiter appears [20] different in infrared [21] partly
because the amount of sunlight reflected back is distinct, giving differing
cloud heights and latitudes discrepant brightnesess. Nevertheless, many
familiar features on Jupiter [22]  remain, including the light zones and dark
belts [23]  that circle the planet near the equator, the Great Red Spot [24]
on the lower left, and the string-of-pearls [25]  storm systems south of the
Great Red Spot. The poles glow because high altitute haze there is energized
by charged particles from Jupiter's magnetosphere [26] . Juno [27]  has now
completed 10 [28]  of 12 planned science orbits of Jupiter and continues to
record data that are helping humanity to understand [29]  not only Jupiter's
weather but what lies beneath [30]  Jupiter's thick clouds.

                  Tomorrow's picture: roses aren't red [31]

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