Roughly
true color image of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter as taken by the Galileo
imaging system on June 26, 1996. Because the Galileo imaging system's wavelength
sensitivities go beyond those of the human eye, this is only an approximation
of what a human observer would have seen in place of the Galileo spacecraft.
To simulate red as our eyes see it, the near-infrared filter (756nm) image
was used. To simulate blue as our eyes see it, the violet filter (410nm)
image was used. Finally, to simulate green as our eyes see it, a combination
of 2/3 violet and 1/3 near-infrared was used. |
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The
result is an image that is similar in color to that seen when looking through
a telescope at Jupiter with your eye, but allowing detail about 100 times
finer to be visible! |
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