Citizen scientist
Thomas Thomopoulos created this enhanced-color image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured
The large, dark shadow on the left side of the image was cast by Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
Jupiter is the largest planet in
the Solar System and the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant with a mass that is more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined
Jupiter is only about
one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter, behind the Moon and Venus, is the third brightest natural object in the Earth’s night sky
Jupiter planet
was named after Jupiter, the Roman god and king of the gods.
Ganymede, a satellite
of the planet Jupiter, is the largest and most massive of the Solar System’s moons. It is the ninth-biggest object in the Solar System