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The Jupiter Gallery

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<< 2/12 < > Voyager 1 took this photo of the planet Jupiter. The Great Red Spot shows prominently below center, surrounded by what scientists call a remarkably complex region of the gant planet's atmosphere. An elongated yellow cloud within the Great Red Spot is swirling around the spot's interior boundary in a counterclockwise direction with a period of a little less than six days, confirming the whirlpool-like circulation that astronomers have suspected from ground-based photographs. Ganymede, Jupiter's largest satellite, can be seen to the lower left of the planet. Ganymede is a planet-sized body larger than Mercury.

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