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ARC-1979-A79-7023
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Range : 6.5 million kilometers (4 million miles) Six violet images of Jupiter makes the mosaic photo, showing the Great Red Spot as a swirling vortex type motion. This motion is also seen in several nearby white clouds. These bright white clouds and the Red Spot are rotating in a counter clockwise direction, except the peculiar filimentary cloud to the right of the Red Spot is going clockwise.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineARC-1979-A79-7023. NASA/ARC, 1979-02-27. Public domain. ID: ARC-1979-A79-7023.