Voyager 1 Jupiter Images – Very high resolution clear filter images

Very high resolution clear filter images

In the last 24 hours before its closest approach to Jupiter, Voyager 1 obtained many clear filter images of Jupiter at very high resolution. This page shows a sample of these images. They are in the order they were obtained; during that time Voyager 1's distance from Jupiter's center dropped from 632960 km to 497580 km. Two versions are included for each image, one with minimal processing and a version with enhanced contrast.

Context view

A wide angle context view showing the location of the high resolution images. The letters (A, B, C etc.) in this context view match the letters used for the indidual images that appear below.

(A) Minimal processing

(A) Enhanced contrast

Image C1638035. This is a very interesting image that looked extremely weird to me when I took my first really close look at it back in 2010. The strange features in the upper half of the image near the right edge are located at planetographic latitude ~7.7 degrees south. I suspect these features are similar to the features in the lower resolution image (C) that appears in a different page of images (C1636 images). The features in that image are located between planetographic latitudes 3 and 6 degrees south. It has been pointed out by John Rogers in his Juno PJ15 report that similar features probably appear at higher resolution in some of the JunoCam images (see e.g. JunoCam image PJ15_30).

(B) Minimal processing

(B) Enhanced contrast

This image (and also images B and D) apparently shows some of the relatively small, bright high altitude clouds that are now familiar from the JunoCam images.

(D) Minimal processing

(D) Enhanced contrast

(E) Minimal processing

(E) Enhanced contrast

(F) Minimal processing

(F) Enhanced contrast

(G) Minimal processing

(G) Enhanced contrast

This image shows features that are now familar from the JunoCam images, e.g. a spiral-shaped storm near the top and some small-scale cloud shadows.

(H) Minimal processing

(H) Enhanced contrast

A relatively (but not completely) uniform and featureless image.

(I) Minimal processing

(I) Enhanced contrast

(J) Minimal processing

(J) Enhanced contrast

(K) Minimal processing

(K) Enhanced contrast

(L) Minimal processing

(L) Enhanced contrast

Cloud shadows and a nice, spiral-shaped storm

(M) Minimal processing

(M) Enhanced contrast

Of the thousands of Voyager Jupiter images, this is the image you want to look at if you want to see cloud shadows and obvious vertical relief in Jupiter's clouds.

(N) Minimal processing