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Jupiter's bright Equatorial Zone swirls with dark patches, dubbed "hot spots" for their infrared glow. These holes...
Saturn Hot Spot
Hot Spots on Io
This composite image shows a hot spot in Jupiter's atmosphere. In the image on the left, taken on Sept. 16, 2020, by...
This composite image shows a hot spot in Jupiter's atmosphere. In the image on the left, taken on Nov. 8, 2020, by...
Io in Eclipse reveals High Temperature Hot Spots
Io in Infrared with Giant Plume New Hot Spot
Saturn North Pole Hot Spot and Hexagon
In this series of images from NASA Cassini spacecraft, a dark, rectangular hot spot interacts with a line of...
The Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) on Galileo obtained this image of half of Io's disk in darkness on...
In August 2001, NASA Galileo spacecraft has returned imagery of a hot spot on Jupiter moon Io that was the source of...
A massive hot spot near the south pole of Io can be seen near the center of this annotated image taken by the JIRAM...
This graph of data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows how astronomers located a hot spot on a distant gas...
During the G7 encounter, NASA Galileo spacecraft observed the shadow of Europa on the clouds of Jupiter during...
Volcanic hot spots are seen in this color temperature map of the Prometheus volcano on Jupiter moon Io created with...
New and older lava flows clustered in the Tvashtar region of Jupiter moon Io appeared as hot spots in a temperature...
The dark hot spot in this false-color image from NASA Cassini spacecraft is a window deep into Jupiter atmosphere....
Members of the media stake out viewing spots prior to the Green Run hot fire test of the core stage for NASA’s Space...
Volcanic hot spots and auroral emissions glow on the darkside of Jupiter moon Io in the image at left. The image was...
Changes in the volcanoes on Jupiter moon Io can be seen in these three views, taken by NASA Galileo spacecraft...
In this movie clip (of which the release image is a still frame), created from images taken by NASA's Cassini...
On Feb. 21, 1997, the Galileo spacecraft observed Io in daylight from a range of approximately 703,000 km 440,000...
The top graph consists of infrared data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. It tells astronomers that a distant...
Using radars on the ESA (European Space Agency) Sentinel-1 satellites, along with advanced data processing...