[SAPOD]Today’s “space image”. We introduce characteristic images introduced by sorae in the past, attractive images released by space agencies around the world, and images sent by space astronomy fans and experts. (There is a link to the original article at the end of the article)
(Citation: HUBBLESITE)
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Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center); Acknowledgment: C. Go and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
HUBBLESITE – Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and Ganymede’s Shadow (Full-Disk, Color)
This is Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 21, 2014.
*The beginning is a cropped image. The full image is shown below.
Right in front of you is the Great Red Spot, inside of which you can see a dark, round area that looks like an eye. This dark area is actually the shadow of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
When the Hubble Space Telescope acquired this image, the shadow cast by Ganymede on Jupiter’s surface just overlapped the Great Red Spot. Ganymede, with a diameter of 5268 km, is larger than Mercury with a diameter of 4880 km, but still smaller than the Great Red Spot.
[▲ Images of Jupiter released by HUBBLESITE. Ganymede’s shadow makes the Great Red Spot look more like an “eye” (Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center); Acknowledgment: C. Go and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))]
