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PIA00359: Jupiter Great Red Spot and White Ovals
This photo of Jupiter was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on March 1, 1979. The photo shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot (upper right) and the turbulent region immediately to the west.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  916 x 783 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P21182  
 Addition Date:  1999-03-06 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00359.tif (1.78 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00359.jpg (66.58 kB)  

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This photo of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1 on March 1, 1979. The spacecraft was 3 million miles (5 million kilometers) from Jupiter at the time. The photo shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot (upper right) and the turbulent region immediately to the west. At the middle right of the frame is one of several white ovals seen on Jupiter from Earth. The structure in every feature here is far better than has ever been seen from any telescopic observations. The Red Spot and the white oval both reveal intricate and involved structure. The smallest details that can be seen in this photo are about 55 miles (95 kilometers) across. JPL manages and controls the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-03-06