Earth-Trojan Asteroid Search: Banded Jupiter and Moons

During Earth-Trojan asteroid search operations, the PolyCam imager captured this image of Jupiter (center) and three of its moons, Callisto (left), Io, and Ganymede. The image, which shows the bands of Jupiter, was taken at 3:34 a.m. EST, on Feb. 12, when the spacecraft was 76 million miles (122 million kilometers) from Earth and 418 million miles (673 million kilometers) from Jupiter.

Date Taken: Feb. 12, 2017

Instrument Used: OCAMS (PolyCam)

Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

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