Voyager 2 Jupiter Images – Great Red Spot
Great Red Spot
A mosaic of six color images each of which is created from one set of orange, green and violet images, thus a total of 18 images was used. The images were obtained on July 7, 1979 when Voyager 2 was 2.7 million km from Jupiter's center.
Great Red Spot (true color)
An approximately true color/contrast version of the mosaic.
Great Red Spot (enhanced)
Wide angle context view
A relatively quick and dirty color composite using wide angle context images obtained at the same time as the narrow angle images used in the GRS mosaic above. The color and overall contrast is natural but the visibility of small scale details has been improved a bit using an unsharp mask. Significant time passed between the orange/green images and the violet image. This made color processing a bit difficult and in fact I only did rather rudimentary color correction which means that the color near the terminator and also near the limb is a bit less accurate than the color near the center of the image.
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