PIA02203: Limb clouds over Triton
This mosaic from NASA's Galileo Probe is of an equatorial 'hotspot' on Jupiter and shows the features of a hazy cloud layer tens of kilometers above Jupiter's main visible cloud deck.
 Target Name:  Triton
 Is a satellite of:  Neptune
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  450 x 900 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P35054  
 Addition Date:  1999-08-01 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02203.tif (92.46 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02203.jpg (19.56 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Limb clouds over Triton's south polar cap. Image is stretched to enhance the limb clouds and surface features. The image shows the cloud on the west limb that extends about 100 km along the limb and appears detached over much of its length.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-08-01