PIA00018: Exaggerated Color View of the Great Red Spot
This view of the Great Red Spot is seen in greatly exaggerated color. The colors do not represent the true hues seen in the Jovian atmosphere but have been produced by special computer processing to enhance subtle variations in both color and shading.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  Imaging Science Subsystem 
 Product Size:  896 x 928 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P21229  
 Addition Date:  1996-01-29 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00018.tif (1.933 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00018.jpg (135.2 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This view of the Great Red Spot is seen in greatly exaggerated color. The colors do not represent the true hues seen in the Jovian atmosphere but have been produced by special computer processing to enhance subtle variations in both color and shading. JPL manages and controls the Voyager Project for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-01-29