Large Brown Oval
Photograph
Large Brown Oval
March 2, 1979
Chromogenic development print
Overall: 15 15/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.5 × 50.7 cm)
Gift of NASA and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Inscriptions verso (applied label, typed): PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE/JET PROPULSION LABORATORY/CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. TELEPHONE: (213) 354-5011/PHOTO CAPTION Voyager 1-64/ P-21294 C/ March 4, 1979/ This large brown oval, photographed on March 2 by Voyager 1,/ is located between 13 and 18° N latitude and may be an opening/ in the upper cloud deck which, if observed at extremely high/ resolution, could provide information about deeper, warmer cloud/ levels; therefore, it has been selected as one of the targets to be/ photographed on March 5 near closest approach to Jupiter. Features/ of this sort are not rare on Jupiter and have an average lifetime/ of one to two years. Above the feature is the pale orange North/ Temperate Belt, bounded on the south by the high speed North/ Temperate Current with winds of 120 meters/sec (260 mi/hr). The/ range to Jupiter at the time this photograph was obtained was/ 4.0 million kilometers (2.5 million miles) with the smallest/ resolvable features being 75 kilometers (45 miles) wide. JPL/ manages and controls the Voyager project for NASA's Office of/ Space Science.
