“We have never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all pretty amazing“, exclaims in a statement from NASA planetary astronomer Imke de Pater of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observation.
“To be honest, we didn’t really expect it to be this good.”
“It is truly remarkable that we can see details of Jupiter with its rings, tiny satellites and even galaxies in a single image.“, she continues. The infrared images were artificially colored in blue, white, green, yellow and orange to bring out the different observable characteristics.
