PIA01521: Jupiter White Oval
This image shows one of the long-lived white oval clouds which have resided in the Jovian southern hemisphere. This photo was taken on July 5, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 2 from a distance of 3.4 million kilometers.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  937 x 910 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P21754A  
 Addition Date:  1999-03-13 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01521.tif (1.655 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01521.jpg (72.53 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This image shows one of the long-lived white oval clouds which have resided in the Jovian southern hemisphere for nearly 40 years. This cloud that is at a longitude west of the Great Red Spot. All of the clouds show very similar internal structures. To the east of each of them, recirculating currents are clearly seen. This photo was taken on July 5 by Voyager 2 from a distance of 3.4 million kilometers.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-03-13