Solar System - Jupiter Photo Gallery

Jupiter Moon Io

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL

Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io in this color composite image from the robotic Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Io, one of Jupiter's 62 known moons, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

Map of Jupiter's South Pole

Map courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

This map of Jupiter is the most detailed global color map of the planet ever produced. A polar stereographic projection showing Jupiter's south pole in the center of the map and its equator at the edge, the map was constructed from images taken by Cassini in December 2000 as the spacecraft passed on its way to Saturn.

Eruption on Io

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL

Newly erupted lava roils on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io in this false-color image taken on February 22, 2000, by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The orange-and-yellow ribbon is a cooling lava flow more than 37 miles (60 kilometers) long.

Moons Visible on Jupiter

Photograph courtesy NASA/ESA/Erich Karkoschka (University of Arizona)

In this composite image from near-infrared light, two of Jupiter's moons are visible against the planet. The white circle in the middle of Jupiter is Io, and the blue circle at upper right is Ganymede. The three black spots are shadows cast by Io, Ganymede, and another moon, Callisto.

Jupiter's Clouds

Photograph courtesy NASA

Exaggerated hues in this false-color image tint clouds swirling southeast of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, an immense high-pressure storm. The image was captured by Voyager I, which took nearly 19,000 pictures of Jupiter over a period of four months in 1979.