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PIA00343: Jupiter
This processed color image of Jupiter was produced in 1990 by the U.S. Geological Survey from a Voyager image captured in 1979. Zones of light-colored, ascending clouds alternate with bands of dark, descending clouds.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Product Size:  840 x 840 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  U.S. Geological Survey 
 Addition Date:  1998-06-04 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00343.tif (1.194 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00343.jpg (42 kB)  

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This processed color image of Jupiter was produced in 1990 by the U.S. Geological Survey from a Voyager image captured in 1979. The colors have been enhanced to bring out detail. Zones of light-colored, ascending clouds alternate with bands of dark, descending clouds. The clouds travel around the planet in alternating eastward and westward belts at speeds of up to 540 kilometers per hour. Tremendous storms as big as Earthly continents surge around the planet. The Great Red Spot (oval shape toward the lower-left) is an enormous anticyclonic storm that drifts along its belt, eventually circling the entire planet.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/USGS

Image Addition Date:
1998-06-04