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PIA02259: Voyager 1 Red Spot Movie

This frame from a movie shows the portion of Jupiter around the Great Red Spot as it swirls through more than 60 Jupiter days. As NASA's Voyager 1 approached Jupiter in 1979, it took images of the planet at regular intervals.

Target Name:	Jupiter
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Voyager
Spacecraft:	Voyager 1
Instrument:	VG ISS - Narrow Angle
Product Size:	318 x 240 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Primary Data Set:	Voyager EDRs

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This movie shows the portion of Jupiter around the Great Red Spot as it swirls through more than 60 Jupiter days. Notice the difference in speed and direction of the various zones of the atmosphere. The interaction of the atmospheric clouds and storm shows how dynamic the Jovian atmosphere is.

As Voyager 1 approached Jupiter in 1979, it took images of the planet at regular intervals. This sequence is made from 66 images taken once every Jupiter rotation period (about 10 hours). This time-lapse movie uses images taken every time Jupiter longitude 68W passed under the spacecraft. These images were acquired in the Blue filter from Jan. 6 to Feb. 3 1979. The spacecraft flew from 58 million kilometers to 31 million kilometers from Jupiter during that time.

This time-lapse movie was produced at JPL by the Image Processing Laboratory in 1979.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:

2000-04-06