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2 May, 2007 (07:11) | Photography, Science, Technology

New s of from - here is one of my favourites

false colour picture of storm on Jupiter

These images, taken with the LEISA infrared camera on the Ralph instrument, show fine details in Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere using light that can only be seen using infrared sensors. These are “false color” pictures made by assigning infrared wavelengths to the colors red, green and blue. LEISA (Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array) takes images across 250 IR wavelengths in the range from 1.25 to 2.5 microns, allowing scientists to obtain an infrared spectrum at every location on Jupiter. A micron is one millionth of a meter. (more…)

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