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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