MEDIA GALLERY : Atmosphere
jump to gallery selectionWhen the Cassini spacecraft flew past Jupiter in late 2000 en route to Saturn, it took a sequence of images of the planet and its flowing cloud bands. This image sequence was assembled to create the movie seen here.
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, the Cassini Imaging Team, CICLOPS, and Cosmos Studios. Special thanks to Andrew Ingersoll (CalTech) for technical assistance. Full caption and movie frames: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003600/a003610/index.html
A high resolution image of Jupiter's clouds taken by NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft as it flew past the planet in March 1979.
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Artist's rendering of a Jupiter cloudscape.
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Jupiter's clouds can swirl rapidly in raised high-pressure storm systems that circle the planet. The above pictured white ovals are located near the Great Red Spot, and have persisted on Jupiter since the 1930s. The Great Red Spot has persisted for at least 300 years. Currently, no one knows why ovals last as long as they do. White ovals are confined to circular belts around Jupiter, but can interact to cause nearby chaotic cloud regions.
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This mosaic of the Great Red Spot taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979.
Original image caption: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00065
Original image caption: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00065
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Diagram showing theoretical conditions, temperatures, and pressures in Jupiter's interior.
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A view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1979.
Original image caption: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01384
Original image caption: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01384
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