Jupiter and its Moons Caught on Camera

SESDA II scientists and media staff at the STEREO Science Center received a rare added bonus while processing video images of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) obtained with one of the twin STEREO coronagraphs. The coronagraph’s occulting disk blocked out sufficient background light from the Sun’s gleaming outer atmosphere that Jupiter and four of its faint Galilean moons (first discovered by Galileo in 1610) could be discerned in the far distance. If you have the bandwidth, go to http://cor1.gsfc.nasa.gov/movies for a spectacular movie of Jupiter and its moons orbiting the Sun.

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