Visit NASA's Home Page Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology View the NASA Portal Click to search JPL Visit JPL Home Page Proceed to JPL's Earth Page Proceed to JPL's Solar System Page Proceed to JPL's Stars & Galaxies Page Proceed to JPL's Technology Page Proceed to JPL's People and Facilities Photojournal Home Page View the Photojournal Image Gallery
Top navigation bar

PIA02870: Small Storms Near Great Red Spot
Target Name: Jupiter
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: Cassini-Huygens
Spacecraft: Cassini Orbiter
Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem
Product Size: 720 samples x 486 lines
Produced By: CICLOPS / University of Arizona
Primary Data Set: Cassini
Full-Res TIFF: PIA02870.tif (743.7 kB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA02870.jpg (17.88 kB)

Click on the image to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format (possibly reduced in size from original).

Original Caption Released with Image:

Quicktime file (149k)
Larger AVI file (454k)

This movie clip (of which the release image is a still frame), created from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, shows small spots slipping over each other east of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. These small storms are born in the turbulent region west of the Great Red Spot, then move westward all the way around the planet until they again encounter the Red Spot from the east, when they are often swallowed by the Red Spot.

Cassini is a cooperative mission of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Cassini for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona


Latest Images Search Methods Animations Spacecraft & Telescopes Related Links Privacy/Copyright Image Use Policy Feedback Frequently Asked Questions Photojournal Home Page First Gov Freedom of Information Act NASA Home Page Webmaster
Bottom navigation bar