Cassini Mosaic Image of Jupiter (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Cassini Mosaic Image of Jupiter

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Cassini mosaic image of Jupiter showing gravity anomaly affecting its jet stream near the red spot. Following the path of one of Jupiter's jet streams, a line of V-shaped chevrons travels west to east just above Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Most of the planet is unfolded here in a single, flat map made on Dec. 11 and 12, 2000, when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past Jupiter. At the left, the chevrons run into another storm called the South Equatorial Disturbance.

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Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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