These Photos Show Jupiter From ‘Above’ and ‘Below’

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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 that’s just one way of looking at Jupiter.

The photo above, created with images from NASA’s 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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[longship]

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]

2. According to the JPL page, these are compiled from Cassini-Huygens

During the fly-by.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07783

[longship]

3. I stand corrected. Here's Carolyn Porco on the Cassini mission.

Her TED Talk, from 2007, well worth viewing:

[cantbeserious]

4. Thank You For Sharing

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[SheilaT]

5. Wow! Thank you for sharing this.

[AuntPatsy]

6. Stunning pictures I had never viewed Jupiter from that position, ...

[paleotn]

7. Looks like the dishwasher's crapping out....

[tclambert]

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.