Hubble Image of Jupiter
                                       
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   NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is following dramatic and rapid changes
   in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere that will be critical for targeting
   observations made by the Galileo space probe when it arrives at the
   giant planet later this year. Galileo's probe entry site is marked
   with the arrow.
   
   A scheduled series of Hubble observations will help target regions of
   interest for detailed scrutiny by the Galileo spacecraft, which will
   arrive at Jupiter in early December 1995. Hubble will provide a global
   view of Jupiter while Galileo will obtain close-up images of structure
   of the clouds that make up the large storm systems such as the white
   ovals that are seen in this picture.
   
   This color picture is assembled from a series of images taken by the
   Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, in planetary camera mode, in October
   1995. These images are part of a set of data obtained by a Hubble
   Space Telescope (HST) team headed by Reta Beebe of New Mexico State
   University.
   
   
   
   Credit: Reta Beebe (New Mexico State University) and NASA
   
   
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