Galileo Image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

Note: This JPEG image is made available in order to share with the public the excitement of new discoveries being made via the NASA/JPL Galileo spacecraft. Galileo scientists are in the process of calibrating and validating this data. The full digital image necessary for scientific analysis will be released within 1 year.

Jupiter's atmosphere in the 756 nm filter of the Galileo imaging system. The image is centered at planetographic latitude -14 and west longitude 319, and is the north center part of a six-frame mosaic of the Great Red Spot. Each pixel subtends a square 35.7 km on a side. North is at the top. The universal time is 4 hours, 19 minutes, 54 seconds on June 26, 1996.

Range: 1.75 million km

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