Giant picture of a giant planet.Saturn-bound Cassini captured this arresting view, the sharpest global portrait of Jupiter ever produced, as the spacecraft spacecraft Vehicle designed to operate, with or without a crew, in a controlled flight pattern above Earth's lower atmosphere. Since streamlining is not needed in the high vacuum of this environment, a spacecraft's shape is designed according to its mission (see passed within 10 million kilometers of the planet on Dec. 29, 2000. Realeases by NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. last week, this true-color composite shows cloud features as small as 60 km across. White thunderstorms thunderstorms a storm characterized by thunder and lightning caused by strong rising air currents; identified as agents of animal disease because of their involvement causing (1) spasmodic colic; (2) lightning strike; (3) injuries of cattle acquired in stampedes initiated by storms. punctuate punc·tu·ate v. punc·tu·at·ed, punc·tu·at·ing, punc·tu·ates v.tr. 1. To provide (a text) with punctuation marks. 2. several of Jupiter's cloud bands, while Great Red Spot, a vortex bigger than Earth, sheds a wake. The thin, dark band in the planet's northern half is Jupiter's fastest jet stream. To assemble the 27 images that Cassini captured during an hour, scientists digitally repositioned and artificially re-illuminated each picture to correct for Jupiter's rotation, thereby showing the entire planet as it would have appeared when the first image was taken. |
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