Triple Eclipse on Jupiter in glorious technicolour..........

[Englander]

Summary - (Nov 4, 2004) The Hubble Space Telescope took this rare picture of a triple eclipse on Jupiter, an event that only happens once or twice a decade. Io is near the middle, Ganymede on the planet's left edge, and Callisto is near the right edge. Astronomers tested a new technique with Hubble when taking this picture. They sped up Hubble's tracking system so that Jupiter passed through its field of view more quickly than normal. This allowed them to take rapid-fire snapshots of the planet and its moons to build into a single image that shows more detail than one single image.

In this image, the telltale signatures of the rare alignment of Io,Ganymede & Callisto are the shadows cast by the moons. Io's shadow is located just above center and to the left; Ganymede's on the planet's left edge; and Callisto's near the right edge. Only two of the moons, however, are visible in this image. Io is the white circle in the center of the image, and Ganymede is the blue circle at upper right. Callisto is out of the image and to the right.

[indepat]

1. Awesome

[demnan]

2. Thanks for posting this

[underpants]

3. It looks infected

:bounce:

[tigereye]

4. that is very beautiful

[Englander]

5. kick

:dem:

[jus_the_facts]

6. trippin'....

....those are some wicked shadows! :crazy:

[VOX]

7. Humbling, in a very good way...

It's a reminder that what happens on Earth isn't the only game in town.

Thanks.