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Deep Impact Looks at Jupiter
03.02.05
Deep Impact imaged Jupiter to test its instruments

An old favorite, Jupiter, was observed by Deep Impact on February 6, 2005, with its high resolution imager (HRI). Jupiter was over 728,000,000 million kilometers (more than 452,000,000 million miles) away from the spacecraft. The North Polar Region, North Equatorial Belt, South Equatorial Belt and South Polar Region can be seen as dark regions and bands. The light regions are the tropical and equatorial zones.

Image credit: NASA/JPL

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