PIA00458: Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt
This image returned NASA's Voyager 2 shows one of the long dark clouds observed in the North Equatorial Belt of Jupiter. A high, white cloud is seen moving over the darker cloud, providing an indication of the structure of the cloud layers.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  607 x 496 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P21753  
 Addition Date:  1996-09-26 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00458.tif (748.4 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00458.jpg (21.62 kB)  

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This image returned by Voyager 2 shows one of the long dark clouds observed in the North Equatorial Belt of Jupiter. A high, white cloud is seen moving over the darker cloud, providing an indication of the structure of the cloud layers. Thin white clouds are also seen within the dark cloud.

At right, blue areas, free of high clouds, are seen. This photo was taken on July 6 from a distance of 3.2 million kilometers.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-09-26