From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Subject: Hubble Comet Images
Date: 14 Jul 1994 04:46 UT


I've created a new "Images" section on the Comet Shoemaker-Levy home page
at JPL (http://newproducts.jpl.nasa/gov/sl9/images.html).
There are currently three recent Hubble Space Telescope images and two 
European Southern Observatory images available, with more to follow.

The Hubble images are also available via anonymous ftp to stsci.edu.  The images
are available as GIF and JPEG images - look in the /stsci/epa/comet/gif
or /stsci/epa/comet/jpeg directory.

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     /_ /|  /____/ \  /_ /|     Ron Baalke     | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov
     | | | |  __ \ /| | | |     JPL/Telos      | 
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From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Subject: Hubble Image of Jupiter and Io Available
Date: 13 Jul 1994 16:49 UT

The Hubble image of Jupiter and Io released last week is now available on
the JPL Comet Shoemaker-Levy home page.  The URL is:

http://newproducts.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/image1.html

The caption file for the image is appended below.

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PHOTO RELEASE NO.: STScI-PR94-26b               FOR RELEASE:   July 7, 1994


THE GIANT PLANET JUPITER AS SEEN BY HUBBLE


An image of Jupiter taken on May 18, 1994, by the Wide Field & Planetary
Camera-2 (WFPC-2) in wide field mode aboard NASA's Hubble Space
Telescope, when the giant planet was at a distance of 420 million miles (670
million km) from Earth.  This "true-color" picture was assembled from separate
HST exposures in red, blue, and green light.  Jupiter's rotation between
exposures creates the blue and red fringe on either side of the disk.  HST can
resolve details in Jupiter's magnificent cloud belts and zones as small as 200
miles (320 km) across (wide field mode).  This detailed view is only surpassed
by images from spacecraft that have traveled to Jupiter.

The dark spot on the disk of Jupiter is the shadow of the inner moon Io.  This
volcanic moon appears as an orange and yellow disk just to the upper right of
the shadow.  Though Io is approximately the size of Earth's Moon (but 2,000
times farther away), HST can resolve surface details.


Credit:   H.A. Weaver, T.E. Smith (Space Telescope Science Institute), and
          J.T. Trauger, R.W. Evans (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and NASA

