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PIA00014: Jupiter Great Red Spot
This dramatic view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its surroundings was obtained by NASA's Voyager 1 on Feb. 25, 1979. The colorful, wavy cloud pattern to the left of the Red Spot is a region of extraordinarily complex end variable wave motion.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  895 x 848 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P21151  
 Addition Date:  1996-02-01 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00014.tif (1.502 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00014.jpg (56.12 kB)  

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This dramatic view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its surroundings was obtained by Voyager 1 on Feb. 25, 1979, when the spacecraft was 5.7 million miles (9.2 million kilometers) from Jupiter. Cloud details as small as 100 miles (160 kilometers) across can be seen here. The colorful, wavy cloud pattern to the left of the Red Spot is a region of extraordinarily complex end variable wave motion. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Voyager mission for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-02-01