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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-17 C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Is it a bird, or a plane? No, it's comet Siding Spring streaking across the sky, as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. An animation is available at the Photojournal.
PIA12836:
Ablaze with Infrared Light Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-17 C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Comet Siding Spring appears to streak across the sky like a superhero in this new infrared image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The comet, also known as C/2007 Q3, was discovered in 2007 by observers in Australia.
PIA12830:
Visitor from Deep Space
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-02-11 P/2010 B2 (WISE) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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The red smudge at the center of this image is the first comet discovered by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The comet is a dusty mass of ice and parades around the sun every 4.7 years.
PIA12449:
First Comet Seen by WISE
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-01-23 2010 AB78 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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The red dot at the center of this image is the first near-Earth asteroid discovered by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE -- an all-sky mapping infrared mission designed to see all sorts of cosmic objects.
PIA12499:
First of Many Asteroid Finds
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-03-26 C/2008 Q3 (Garradd) Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer is a mosaic of 3 individual WISE frames spanning an area on the sky about 7 times the size of the full Moon in portions of the constellations Bootes and Canes Venatici.
PIA12985:
M3 & Comet Garradd
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-05-25 Asteroid Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This image shows asteroids observed so far by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. An animation is available at the Photojournal.
PIA13113:
Scanning for Asteroids and Comets Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-04 Asteroid Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This frame from a video demonstrates how NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer surveys asteroids and comets in the solar system. Perspective shown here is looking down from high above Earth's North Pole, a kind of bird's eye view of the solar system.
PIA13435:
Asteroid and Comet Census from WISE
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-10-05 Comet Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This visitor from deep space, seen here by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, is comet Hartley 2, the destination for NASA's EPOXI mission. The comet's tail is seen here as a fuzzy streak to the right of the comet.
PIA13438:
Icy Visitor from Beyond
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-01 Comet Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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During its one-year mission, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, mapped the entire sky in infrared light. Among the multitudes of astronomical bodies that have been discovered by the NEOWISE portion of the WISE mission are 20 comets.
PIA13457:
Comets WISE -- A Family Portrait
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Vesta Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This chart based on data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer illustrates why infrared-sensing telescopes are more suited to finding small, dark asteroids than telescopes that detect visible light.
PIA14732:
Infrared Telescopes Spy Small, Dark Asteroids
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Vesta Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This chart based on data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer illustrates how infrared is used to more accurately determine an asteroid's size; three asteroids of different sizes can look similar when viewed in visible-light.
PIA14733:
How to Tell the Size of An Asteroid
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Vesta Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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Data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has led to revisions in the estimated population of near-Earth asteroids. The most accurate survey to date has allowed new estimates of the total numbers of objects in different size categories.
PIA14734:
WISE Revises Numbers of Asteroids Near Earth
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Vesta Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This frame from an animation illustrates asteroid-hunting results from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, taken during its one-year survey of the sky in infrared light.
PIA14735:
Changing Views of Our Solar System Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-29 Vesta Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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This frame from an animation illustrates the benefits of observing asteroids in infrared light. It begins by showing two artistic interpretations of asteroids up close.
PIA14736:
Portrait of Two Asteroids in Different Light Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-08-21 Asteroid Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
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NASA's NEOWISE, snapped this infrared picture of near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as it zips past a cloud of dense gas and dust near the Orion nebula.
PIA17255:
Asteroid Zips By Orion
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-03 Saturn W. M. Keck Observatory
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These side-by-side false-color images show Saturn's heat emission. The data were taken on Feb. 4, 2004, from the W. M. Keck I Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The prominent hot spot at the bottom of each image is at Saturn's south pole.
PIA07007:
Red-Hot Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-02-03 Saturn W. M. Keck Observatory
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This is the sharpest image of Saturn's temperature emissions taken from the ground; it is a mosaic of 35 individual exposures made at the W.M. Keck I Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii on Feb. 4, 2004.
PIA07008:
Saturn's Hot Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This computer generated map of Jupiter was made from 10 color images of Jupiter taken Feb. 1, 1979, by NASA's Voyager 1, during a single, 10 hour rotation of the planet.
PIA00011:
Cylindrical Projection of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-29 Earth Voyager
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This picture of a crescent-shaped Earth and Moon, the first of its kind ever taken by a spacecraft, was recorded Sept. 18, 1977, by NASA's Voyager 1 when it was 7.25 million miles (11.66 million kilometers) from Earth.
PIA00013:
Crescent Earth and Moon
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-02-01 Jupiter Voyager
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This dramatic view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its surroundings was obtained by NASA's Voyager 1 on Feb. 25, 1979. The colorful, wavy cloud pattern to the left of the Red Spot is a region of extraordinarily complex end variable wave motion.
PIA00014:
Jupiter Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This large brown oval, photographed on Mar. 2, 1979 by NASA's Voyager 1. Features of this sort are not rare on Jupiter and have an average lifetime of one to two years. Above the feature is the pale orange North Temperate Belt.
PIA00015:
Large Brown Oval
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This view of the region just to the Southeast of the Great Red Spot was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on March 4, 1979 at a distance of 1,100,000 miles (1,800,000 km).
PIA00017:
Cloud Layers Southeast of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This view of the Great Red Spot is seen in greatly exaggerated color. The colors do not represent the true hues seen in the Jovian atmosphere but have been produced by special computer processing to enhance subtle variations in both color and shading.
PIA00018:
Exaggerated Color View of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This color view of the region just to the East of the Great Red Spot was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on March 4, 1979 at a distance of 1,000,000 miles (1,800,000 km).
PIA00019:
Cloud Layers East of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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This view from NASA's Voyager 1 in 1979 is of the region just to the east of the Red Spot, seen in greatly exaggerated color.
PIA00020:
Exaggerated Color East of the Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-01 Jupiter Voyager
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This photo of Jupiter's Great Red Spot was taken by Voyager 1 in early March 1979.
PIA00022:
Jupiter Great Red Spot Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn and two of its moons, Tethys (above) and Dione, were photographed by NASA's Voyager 1 on November 3, 1980, from 13 million kilometers (8 million miles).
PIA00024:
Saturn With Tethys and Dione
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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This false-color image of Saturn's southern hemisphere taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 6, 1980, shows the unique red oval cloud feature located at 55 degrees south latitude.
PIA00025:
Saturn - False Color of Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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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.
PIA00026:
Saturn - Brown Ovals in Northern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-30 Saturn Voyager
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A view of Saturn's clouds extending from 40` to 60` N latitude shows a ribbon-like wave structure in the south with small convective features marking a westward jet in the north. This image was obtained on November 10, 1980 by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00027:
Saturn -- Ribbon-like Wave Structure in Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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NASA'S Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet Jupiter on Jan. 6, 1979, the first in its three-month-long, close-up investigation of the largest planet.
PIA00029:
First Close-up Image of Jupiter from Voyager 1
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'true color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981. The moons Rhea and Dione appear as blue dots to the south and southeast of Saturn, respectively.
PIA00030:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (True Color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-08-01 Uranus Voyager
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These two images of Uranus, one in true color and the other in false color, were compiled from images returned in 1986, by the narrow-angle camera of NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA00032:
Uranus in True and False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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These images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 show changes in the clouds around Neptune's Great Dark Spot (GDS) over a four and one-half-day period. From top to bottom the images show successive rotations of the planet an interval of about 18 hours.
PIA00045:
Neptune - Changes in Great Dark Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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During August 16 and 17, 1989, the Voyager 2 narrow-angle camera was used to photograph Neptune almost continuously, recording approximately two and one-half rotations of the planet.
PIA00046:
Neptune Full Disk
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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The bright cirrus-like clouds of Neptune change rapidly, often forming and dissipating over periods of several to tens of hours as seen in this sequence spanning two rotations of Neptune (about 36 hours) by NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA00047:
Neptune - Changes in Great Dark Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This image of clouds in Neptune's atmosphere is the first that tests the accuracy of the weather forecast that was made eight days earlier to select targets for NASA's Voyager narrow angle camera.
PIA00048:
Neptune - Great Dark Spot and Scooter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-01-08 Neptune Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photograph of Neptune was reconstructed from two images taken by NASA's Voyager 2. At the north (top) is the Great Dark Spot.
PIA00049:
Neptune - Great Dark Spot, Scooter, Dark Spot 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune's southern hemisphere was taken by the narrow-angle camera on NASA's Voyager 2 when the spacecraft was 4.2 million km (2.6 million miles) from the planet.
PIA00050:
Neptune's Southern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the atmosphere are blue, while those at higher altitudes are white. The image was taken by Voyager 2's wide-angle camera through an orange filter and two different methane filters.
PIA00051:
Neptune in False Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-08-30 Neptune Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photograph shows the last face on view of the Great Dark Spot that NASA's Voyager made with its narrow angle camera.
PIA00052:
Neptune Great Dark Spot in High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this image of Neptune's irregularly-shaped satellite 1989N1 from a range of 870,000 kilometers (540,000 miles).
PIA00055:
1989N1
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This false color photograph of Neptune was made from Voyager 2 images taken through three filters: blue, green, and a filter that passes light at a wavelength that is absorbed by methane gas.
PIA00057:
Neptune False Color Image of Haze
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 captured this high resolution color image, taken 2 hours before closest approach, providing obvious evidence of vertical relief in Neptune's bright cloud streaks.
PIA00058:
Neptune Clouds Showing Vertical Relief
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This image of Neptune's satellite 1989N1 was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1989 from a range of 146,000 kilometers (91,000 miles).
PIA00062:
1989N1 Surface Detail
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This image of the blue-hued Neptune was taken by NASA's Voyager 2; small trails of similar clouds trending east to west and large scale structure east of the Great Dark Spot all suggest that waves are present in the atmosphere and play a large role.
PIA00063:
Neptune - True Color of Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Neptune Voyager
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This bulls-eye view of Neptune's small dark spot (D2) was obtained by NASA' s Voyager 2's narrow-angle camera on Aug. 24, 1989, when Voyager 2 was within 1.1 million km (680,000 miles) of the planet.
PIA00064:
Neptune's Dark Spot (D2) at High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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This mosaic of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by NASA's Voyager 1, shows the area around the northern boundary where a white cloud is seen which extends to east of the region.
PIA00065:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Uranus Voyager
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This view of pale blue-green Uranus was recorded by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan 25, 1986, as the spacecraft left the planet behind. The thin crescent of Uranus is seen here between the spacecraft, the planet and the Sun.
PIA00143:
Uranus - Final Image
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-01-29 Jupiter Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io, left, and Europa) on Feb. 13, 1979. Io is above Jupiter's Great Red Spot; Europa is above Jupiter's clouds. The poles are dark and reddish.
PIA00144:
Jupiter with Satellites Io and Europa
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-01-09 Jupiter Voyager
 VG ISS - Wide Angle
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This NASA Voyager 1 image was taken of Jupiter's darkside on March 5, 1979 when the spacecraft was in Jupiter's shadow, about 6 hours after closest approach to the planet at a distance of 320,000 miles.
PIA00204:
Lights In The Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-03-13 Jupiter Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter Feb. 1, 1979. Voyager scientists saw that different colors in clouds around the Great Red Spot imply that the clouds swirl around the spot at varying altitudes.
PIA00235:
Jupiter with Satellite Io
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-19 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 image of Saturn and its ring taken Nov. 16, 1980 four days after closest approach to Saturn, from a distance of 5,300, 000 km (3,300,000 miles).
PIA00335:
Full-disk Color Image of Crescent Saturn with Rings and Ring Shadows
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Jupiter Voyager
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This processed color image of Jupiter was produced in 1990 by the U.S. Geological Survey from a Voyager image captured in 1979. Zones of light-colored, ascending clouds alternate with bands of dark, descending clouds.
PIA00343:
Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Uranus Voyager
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This image shows a crescent Uranus, a view that Earthlings never witnessed until Voyager 2 flew near and then beyond Uranus on Jan 24, 1986.
PIA00346:
Color Voyager 2 Image Showing Crescent Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-04 Saturn Voyager
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This enhanced-color picture from NASA's Voyager shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space, and another smaller satellite (Mimas) is visible against Saturn's cloud tops.
PIA00349:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons, Enhanced Color
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-06 Jupiter Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this photo taken Feb. 5, 1979, by Voyager 1. Io, Europa, and Callisto are seen against Jupiter's disk.
PIA00358:
Jupiter and Three Galilean Satellites
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-06 Jupiter Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photo of Jupiter was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on March 1, 1979. The photo shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot (upper right) and the turbulent region immediately to the west.
PIA00359:
Jupiter Great Red Spot and White Ovals
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-03-06 Jupiter Voyager
 VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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A high resolution image of the Jovian mid-latitudes taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft on March 2, 1979, shows distinctly differing characteristics of the planet's meteorology.
PIA00360:
High Winds in the Jovian Mid-latitudes
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-10-23 Uranus Voyager
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These time-lapse images of Uranus. taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan. 14, 1986, show the movement of two small, bright, streaky clouds -- the first such features ever seen on the planet.
PIA00369:
Uranus Cloud Movement
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-26 Uranus Voyager
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This false-color picture of Uranus, obtained by NASA's Voyager on Jan. 14, 1986, shows a discrete cloud seen as a bright streak near the planet's limb.
PIA00370:
Uranus - Discrete Cloud
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-13 Jupiter Voyager
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This photograph of the southern hemisphere of Jupiter was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on June 25, 1979. Seen in front of the turbulent clouds of the planet is Io, the innermost of the large Galilean satellites of Jupiter.
PIA00371:
Jupiter - Io In Front of Jupiter's Turbulent Clouds
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-11-13 Jupiter Voyager
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This picture from NASA's Voyager 2 shows a region of the southern hemisphere extending from the Great Red Spot to the south pole. The white oval is seen beneath the Great Red Spot, and several small scale spots are visible farther to the south.
PIA00372:
Jupiter - Region from the Great Red Spot to the South Pole
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.269 MB)     JPEG (60.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1998-06-08 Saturn Voyager
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This approximate natural-color image from NASA's Voyager 2 shows Saturn, its rings, and four of its icy satellites. Three satellites Tethys, Dione, and Rhea are visible against the darkness of space.
PIA00400:
Saturn and 4 Icy Moons in Natural Color
Full Resolution:     TIFF (1.061 MB)     JPEG (47.25 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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This color image of the sun, Earth and Venus was taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft Feb. 14, 1990, when it was approximately 32 degrees above the plane of the ecliptic and at a slant-range distance of approximately 4 billion miles.
PIA00450:
Solar System Portrait - View of the Sun, Earth and Venus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Sol (our sun) Voyager
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The cameras of Voyager 1 on Feb. 14, 1990, pointed back toward the sun and took a series of pictures of the sun and the planets, making the first ever 'portrait' of our solar system as seen from the outside.
PIA00451:
Solar System Portrait - 60 Frame Mosaic
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-12 Earth Voyager
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This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed 'Pale Blue Dot', is a part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA00452:
Solar System Portrait - Earth as 'Pale Blue Dot'
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-13 Earth Voyager
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These six narrow-angle color images were made from the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager 1, which was more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic.
PIA00453:
Solar System Portrait - Views of 6 Planets
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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These Jupiter photographs are part of a set taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on December 10 and 11, 1978 from a distance of 83 million km (52 million miles) or more than half the distance from the Earth to the sun.
PIA00454:
Early Voyager 1 Images of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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Jupiter's satellite Io poses before the giant planet in this photo returned January 17, 1979. The satellite's shadow can be seen falling on the face of Jupiter at left. Io is traveling from left to right in its orbit around Jupiter.
PIA00455:
Jupiter with Io Crossing
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 shows the Great Red Spot and the south equatorial belt extending into the equatorial region. At right is an interchange of material between the south equatorial belt and the equatorial zone.
PIA00456:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot and South Equatorial Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 1996-09-26 Jupiter Voyager
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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.
PIA00458:
Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-01-08 Neptune Voyager
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This photograph of Neptune was reconstructed from two images taken by NASA's Voyager 2. At the north (top) is the Great Dark Spot, accompanied by bright, white clouds that undergo rapid changes in appearance.
PIA01142:
Neptune Scooter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-08-28 Saturn Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this 'false color' photograph of Saturn on July 21, 1981, when the spacecraft was 33.9 million kilometers (21 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01143:
Saturn With Rhea and Dione (false color)
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-09-21 Jupiter Voyager
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This crescent view of Jupiter was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Mar. 24, 1979.
PIA01324:
Jupiter
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This is a view of Jupiter taken by NASA's Voyager 1. This image was taken through three color filters and recombined to produce the color image.
PIA01353:
Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-06-21 Uranus Voyager
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Several craters are seen on the surface of 1985U1, one of several small moons of Uranus discovered by NASA's Voyager 2. The spacecraft acquired this single image, the only close-up it obtained of any of the new moons, on Jan. 24, 1986.
PIA01357:
Uranus Moon - 1985U1
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Uranus Voyager
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These two pictures of Uranus were compiled from images recorded by NASA's Voyager 2 on Jan. 1O, 1986. This view is toward the planet's pole of rotation, which lies just left of center. The image on the right is a false-color image.
PIA01360:
Uranus, Toward the Planet's Pole of Rotation
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-10-14 Neptune Voyager
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These three images of Neptune were acquired 90 minutes apart by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on April 3, 1989, from a range of 208 million kilometers (129 million miles). Several atmospheric features (clouds) are visible.
PIA01363:
3 Images of Neptune
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn storms observed by NASA's Voyager, Aug. 5, 2004. Voyager 1 and 2 observed radio signals from lightning which were interpreted as being from a persistent, low-latitude storm system.
PIA01364:
Saturn Taken from Voyager 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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This false color picture of Saturn's northern hemisphere was assembled from ultraviolet, violet and green images obtained Aug. 19, 1998 by NASA's Voyager 2. The several weather patterns evident include three spots flowing westward.
PIA01365:
Saturn's Northern Hemisphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Jupiter Voyager
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This image was obtained on June 29, 1979, when Voyager 2 was 9.3 million kilometers (5.6 million miles) from the planet. The broad, orange band extending across the lower half of the picture is the equatorial region of the planet.
PIA01369:
Jupiter from Voyager 2
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Jupiter Voyager
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This color composite made from NASA's Voyager 2 shows the Great Red Spot during the late Jovian afternoon. North of the Red Spot lies a curious darker section of the South Equatorial Belt (SEB), the belt in which the Red Spot is located.
PIA01370:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-04 Jupiter Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet Jupiter on Jan. 6, 1979, the first in its three-month-long, close-up investigation of the largest planet.
PIA01371:
Voyager Picture of Jupiter
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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This comparison shows Saturn's north temperate region as viewed Nov. 5, 1980, by Voyager 1, and Aug. 21 by its sister craft, Voyager 2, from a range of 3.1 million miles. A gigantic storm system in the planet's atmosphere is featured.
PIA01375:
Saturn's North Temperate Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 Saturn Voyager
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This image of Saturn from NASA's Voyager 2, obtained Aug. 21 from a distance of 3.4 million miles, shows further evidence of weather patterns at all latitudes. A stream of clouds is moving in the westward flow.
PIA01376:
Voyager 2 Image of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 Saturn Voyager
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This photographic mosaic of Saturn is the result of the processing of three green-filter frames obtained Aug. 20, 1980, when NASA's Voyager 2 was 5.7 million kilometers (3.4 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01377:
Photographic Mosaic of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 Saturn Voyager
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The extensive ribbonlike cloud structure in Saturn's atmosphere is visible in this image from NASA's Voyager 2, obtained Aug. 23, 1980 from a range of 2.5 million kilometers (1.6 million miles).
PIA01378:
Saturn's Ribbonlike Cloud Structure
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A vortex, or large atmospheric storm, is visible in this color composite of NASA's Voyager 2 Saturn images obtained Aug. 25, 1979 from a range of 1 million kilometers (620,000 miles).
PIA01379:
Saturnian Atmospheric Storm
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Saturn Voyager
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Saturn and its satellites Tethys (outer left), Enceladus (inner left) and Mimas (right of rings) are seen in this mosaic of images taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Oct. 30, 1980 from a distance of 18 million kilometers (11 million miles).
PIA01383:
Saturn and its Satellites Tethys, Enceladus and Mimas
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-12-05 Jupiter Voyager
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This view of Jupiter was taken by Voyager 1. This image was taken through color filters and recombined to produce the color image. This photo was assembled from three black and white negatives by the Image Processing Lab at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
PIA01384:
Jupiter's Great Red Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-08 Uranus Voyager
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A sliver of Uranus is seen by NASA's Voyager 2. This image was taken through three color filters and recombined to produce the color image.
PIA01391:
Uranus
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Earth Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 was launched on Aug. 20, 1977 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida where it was propelled into space on a Titan/Centaur rocket.
PIA01480:
Voyager 2 Launch
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Jupiter Voyager
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Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites, were photographed in early March, 1980, by NASA's Voyager 1 and assembled into this collage. They are not to scale but are in their relative positions
PIA01481:
Jupiter System Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Saturn Voyager
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This montage of images of the Saturnian system was prepared from an assemblage of images taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft during its Saturn encounter in November 1980.
PIA01482:
Saturn System Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Saturn Voyager
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This montage of images of the planets visited by Voyager 2 was prepared from an assemblage of images taken in 1980 by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft.
PIA01483:
Voyager Tour Montage
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-02 Uranus Voyager
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This computer enhancement of a NASA Voyager 2 image, emphasizes the high-level haze in Uranus' upper atmosphere. Clouds are obscured by the overlying atmosphere.
PIA01488:
Uranus' Upper Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Uranus Voyager
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A latitude-longitude grid superimposed on this false color image obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1986 shows that Uranus' atmosphere circulates in the same direction as the planet rotates.
PIA01489:
Uranus' Atmosphere
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Neptune Voyager
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This image was returned by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 3, 1989. The planet and its largest satellite, Triton, are captured in view; Triton appears in the lower right corner at about 5 o'clock relative to Neptune.
PIA01491:
Neptune and Triton
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 Neptune Voyager
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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.
PIA01492:
Neptune Full Disk View
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