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PIA01492: Neptune Full Disk View
The image of Neptune shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge; on the west limb the fast moving bright feature called Scooter and the little dark spot are visible in this image obtaind by NASA's Voyager 2.
 Target Name:  Neptune
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Product Size:  2188 x 2185 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P35669  
 Addition Date:  1998-10-30 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01492.tif (8.758 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01492.jpg (259 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This picture of Neptune was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera. The images were taken at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. The picture shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge; on the west limb the fast moving bright feature called Scooter and the little dark spot are visible. These clouds were seen to persist for as long as Voyager's cameras could resolve them. North of these, a bright cloud band similar to the south polar streak may be seen.

The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA's Office of Space Science and Applications.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1998-10-30