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Related: About this forumThese Photos Show Jupiter From ‘Above’ and ‘Below’
When you think of the planet Jupiter, you probably think of that giant striped planet with the Great Red Spot anticyclonic storm swirling across the face. But thats just one way of looking at Jupiter.
The photo above, created with images from NASAs Cassini space probe, shows what Jupiter looks like from directly above the north pole.
This one, also captured by Cassini, shows the planet from below, or under the south pole in this view, the Great Red Spot can be clearly seen:
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http://petapixel.com/2015/12/09/these-photos-show-jupiter-from-above-and-below/#more-194168
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These Photos Show Jupiter From ‘Above’ and ‘Below’ (Original Post)
n2doc
Dec 2015
OP
That Great Red Spot ain't so great. Now if Donald Trump built a Great Red Spot,
tclambert
Dec 2015
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Cassini has been orbiting Saturn for years.
It used Jupiter as a slingshot, but I do not know that it imaged the whole planet on the way to Saturn.
Maybe the OP is mistaking Cassini for Galileo, the probe which actually studied Jupiter.
Otherwise, I am a bit confused about this post.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)2. According to the JPL page, these are compiled from Cassini-Huygens
During the fly-by.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07783
longship
(40,416 posts)3. I stand corrected. Here's Carolyn Porco on the Cassini mission.
Her TED Talk, from 2007, well worth viewing:
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)4. Thank You For Sharing
eom
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)5. Wow! Thank you for sharing this.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)6. Stunning pictures I had never viewed Jupiter from that position, ...
paleotn
(17,989 posts)7. Looks like the dishwasher's crapping out....
tclambert
(11,087 posts)8. That Great Red Spot ain't so great. Now if Donald Trump built a Great Red Spot,
then you'd see GREAT! And he'd get the Jovians to pay for it. Down here on Earth, a loser of a planet, really third rate, he'll have to settle for building a 700-foot high wall across the border with Mexico.