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ARC-1979-AC79-7011
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Range : 4.3 million km. ( 2.7 million miles ) This photograph taken from Voyager I shows Jupiter's Great Red Spot and one of the white ovals seen from Earth . These white ovals were seen to have formed in 1939 & 1940, and have remained somewhat consistant since. The Great Red Spot is three times the size of the Earth. This photograph represents the finnest detail seen to date, with the smallest details being 80 km. ( 45 miles ) across.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineARC-1979-AC79-7011. NASA/ARC, 1979-03-01. Public domain. ID: ARC-1979-AC79-7011.