Happy Fourth of July 🇺🇸⁣ ⁣ @NASAHubble's view of Jupiter in ultraviolet view gives researcher's new insights into the planet's atmosphere - in time for Independence day! The fifth planet from the Sun is by far the largest in our solar system, more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined.⁣ ⁣ A new storm churns up a lot of red, white, and blue on the gas giant. The red in this image is particles in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, the white spots are particles that absorb ultraviolet light, while the blue hue shows ultraviolet light reflecting from the planet’s surface.⁣ ⁣ Astronomers often look at celestial objects through various light spectrums to help study the chemical composition, atmospheric conditions, and elemental properties.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team⁣ ⁣ #NASA #Space #Astrophotography #Hubble #IndependenceDay #FourthOfJuly #Jupiter #Ultraviolet #July4th

Good morning, starshine! The Earth says hello. ✨ These scattered specks of light are actually a cosmic menagerie of distant galaxies captured by the @NASAHubble Space Telescope. This massive galaxy cluster, called Abell 1351, lies in the constellation Ursa Major in the Northern Hemisphere. The odd streaks of light are the result of gravitational lensing, a phenomenon that occurs when massive celestial bodies, such as a galaxy cluster, distort the gravity of space strongly enough to affect the path of light passing through it. The result: light appears to us as if it passed through a gigantic lens. Although distorted, observations like this catalog a large array of galaxies for scientists to later investigate in finer detail with Hubble, allowing it to use every second of observing time and maximizing the overall scientific output of the observatory. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz #NASA #Hubble #Astrophotography #Space #Galaxy #Stars #Cosmos #Light #Telescope

Babe, wake up, a new Martian map just dropped. 🗺 Seen are six views of the Nili Fossae region of Mars captured by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, one of the instruments aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). This multicolored 5.6-gigapixel map covers 86% of the Red Planet’s surface and reveals the distribution of dozens of key minerals, the varying colors representing different minerals on the Martian surface seen in different wavelengths of light. Launched in 2005, the spacecraft has spent the last 16 years mapping the surface of Mars. Since then, CRISM’s maps have been used to select landing sites for other spacecraft, as with Jezero Crater, where our Perseverance Mars rover is exploring an ancient river delta. To keep its instruments cool enough to make the most accurate infrared mappings of Mars possible it was deployed with three cyrocoolers, that over the extent of its mission have been spent. Although CRISM won’t be making as accurate observations as it once was, it will remain in a standby mode to make additional surveys before eventually being decommissioned. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHU-APL #NASA #Space #Art #Mars #Satellite #Maps #PopArt #SolarSystem #RedPlanet #DataIsBeautiful