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PIA00026: Saturn - Brown Ovals in Northern Hemisphere
Two brown ovals, at right, some 10,000 km (6,000 miles) across, were found at approximately 40` and 60` latitude in Saturn's northern hemisphere by NASA's Voyager 1. The photo was taken on November 7, 1980.
 Target Name:  Saturn
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Product Size:  770 x 910 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P23073  
 Addition Date:  1996-01-29 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00026.tif (1.62 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00026.jpg (105.3 kB)  

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Two brown ovals, at right, some 10,000 kilometers (6,000 miles) across, were found at approximately 40` and 60` latitude in Saturn's northern hemisphere by Voyager 1. The photo was taken on November 7, 1980, from a range of 7,500,000 kilometers (4,600,000 miles). The polar oval (upper right) has a structure similar to the Saturn red spot located in the southern polar latitudes. The Voyager Project is managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-01-29