Title:[0744] A large brown oval on Jupiter Caption: One of four large brown oval features seen during the Voyager encounters with Jupiter in the North Equatorial Belt at a latitude of about 15 degrees north. They are "holes" in the ammonia ice crystal clouds at higher levels, which reveal brown haze at a lower level. Copyright: Credit:National Optical Astronomy Observatories |
Title:[0742] Close-up of Jupiter's clouds Caption:A Voyager close-up image of a section of Jupiter's clouds, including part of a white oval. Copyright: Credit:National Optical Astronomy Observatories |
Title:[0743] Enhanced color image of jovian clouds Caption:The colors in this Voyager 2 image of Jupiter's clouds have been exaggerated to enhance the contrast. The brown oval lies in the North Equatorial Belt. Further south can be seen part of the chaotic turbulent region bordering the west side of the Great Red Spot. The resolution is about 190 km. Copyright: Credit:National Optical Astronomy Observatories |
Title:[0740] Jupiter's Great Red Spot Caption:This Voyager image shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the turbulent eddies surrounding it and two white ovals. The Great Red Spot is 24,000 km (15,000 miles) long and 11,000 km (7,000 miles) wide. It rotates anti clockwise like a giant anticyclonic storm. Copyright: Credit:National Optical Astronomy Observatories |
Title:[0320] Changes in Jupiter's clouds over 4 months Caption:The image on the left was taken by Voyager 1 on 24 January 1979 and that on the right by Voyager 2 on 9 May 1979. Careful comparison shows numerous changes in the detail of cloud structure and the relative positions of particular features. Copyright: Credit:NASA |
Title:[0738] Jupiter Caption:A Voyager image of the full disk of Jupiter taken from 23.3 million miles. The Great Red Spot is on the eastern limb. Copyright: Credit:National Optical Astronomy Observatories |
Title:[0321] Movement of the Great Red Spot Caption:Cylindrical projections constructed from Voyager 1 and 2 images showing the movement of the Great Red Spot and other features on Jupiter between February (top) and June 1979. The longitude scales are aligned so the relative motion in different latitude bands can be seen. Copyright: Credit:NASA |
Title:[0298] Southern hemisphere of Jupiter Caption:A mosaic of Voyager images giving a view of the southern hemisphere of Jupiter from directly above the pole. In this way, features at high latitudes are shown more clearly. It shows three white ovals and a large region of the same zone, without any discrete feature; smaller-scale spots almost equally spaced, covering about 270 degrees of longitude; and the disturbance trailing from the Great Red Spot and extending about 180 degrees in longitude from it; features zonally spaced in the higher latitudes, even though the belt-zone structure disappears. Copyright: Credit:NASA |
Title:[0436] Jupiter Caption:A Voyager view of the giant planet with colors enhanced to show up the contrast. Copyright: Credit:A NASA/JPL PHOTO |
Title:[3030] Composite of Jupiter and Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (HST) Caption:This composite is made from an image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on 18 May 1994 (prior to the impact of the comet) and a separate image of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 made by HST on 17 May 1994. The dark spot on Jupiter is the image of its moon Io which can be seen as a yellow and orange disk against the planet to the right of the shadow. Copyright: Credit:H. A. Weaver, T. E. Smith, J. T. Trauger, R. W. Evans, and NASA. |
Title:[4025] Jupiter's White Ovals/True and False Caption:Oval cloud systems of this type are often associated with chaotic cyclonic systems such as the balloon-shaped vortex seen here between the well-formed ovals. The east-to-west dimension of the left-most white oval is 9,000 kilometers (5,592 miles) across. The top mosaic combines the violet (410 nanometers) and near infrared continuum (756 nanometers) filter images to create a mosaic similar to how Jupiter would appear to human eyes. The lower mosaic uses the Galileo imaging camera's three near-infrared wavelengths (756 nanometers, 727 nanometers, and 889 nanometers displayed in red, green, and blue) to show variations in cloud height and thickness. Light blue clouds are high and thin, reddish clouds are deep, and white clouds are high and thick. These images were taken on February 19, 1997, at a range of 1.1 million kilometers (683,507 miles) by the solid state imaging (CCD) system aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Copyright: Credit:NASA/JPL |
Title:[4020] A Jovian Hotspot in True and False Colors Caption:True and false color views of an equatorial 'hotspot' on Jupiter. These images cover an area 34,000 kilometers by 11,000 kilometers. The top mosaic combines the violet (410 nanometers or nm) and near-infrared continuum (756 nm) filter images to create an image similar to how Jupiter would appear to human eyes. The bottom mosaic uses Galileo's three near-infrared wavelengths (756 nm, 727 nm, and 889 nm displayed in red, green, and blue) to show variations in cloud height and thickness. Bluish clouds are high and thin, reddish clouds are low, and white clouds are high and thick. North is at the top. The mosaics cover latitudes 1 to 10 degrees and are centered at longitude 336 degrees West. The smallest resolved features are tens of kilometers in size. These images were taken on December 17, 1996, at a range of 1.5 million kilometers by the Solid State Imaging system aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Copyright: Credit:NASA/JPL |
Title:[4021] Wind Patterns in Jupiter's Equatorial Region Caption:This mosaic covers an area of 34,000 kilometers by 22,000 kilometers and was taken using the 756 nanometer (nm) near-infrared continuum filter. The dark region near the center of the mosiac is an equatorial 'hotspot' similar to the Galileo Probe entry site. The near-infrared continuum filter shows the features of Jupiter's main visible cloud deck. The arrows show the winds measured by an observer moving eastward (right) at the speed of the hotspot. The mosaic covers latitudes 1 to 19 degrees and is centered at longitude 336 degrees West. The smallest resolved features are tens of kilometers in size. These images were taken on December 17, 1996, at a range of 1.5 million kilometers by the Solid State Imaging system aboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Copyright: Credit:NASA/JPL |