10. What does Jupiter look like up close? (A K2S Question)

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We cannot see beneath the dense clouds of Jupiter and only the topmost cloud layers are visible. The Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini space probes captured the best images we have of Jupiter. This dramatic view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its surroundings was obtained by Voyager 1 on February 25, 1979, when the spacecraft was5.7 million miles from Jupiter. Cloud details as small as 100 miles across can be seen here. The wavy cloud pattern to the left of the Red Spot is a region of extraordinarily complex and variable wave motion. To give a sense of Jupiter's scale, the white oval storm directly below the Great Red Spot is approximately the same diameter as Earth. Photograph courtesy of NASA.

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Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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