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Range 1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galileo spacecraft's Solid State Imaging System.

JPL1990-02-14

NASA

NASA
Washington, DC, United States

Range : 1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galileo spacecraft's Solid State Imaging System. A high-pass spatial filter has been applied in order to emphasize the smaller-scale cloud features, and the rendition has been colorized to a bluish hue in order to emphasize the subtle contrasts in the cloud markings and to indicate how it was taken through a violet filter. The sulfuric acid clouds indicate considerable convective activity, in the equatorial regions of the planet to the left and downwind of the subsolar point (afternoon on Venus), They are analogous to 'fair weather clouds' on Earth. The filamentary dark features visible in the colorized image are here revealed to be composed of several dark nodules, like strings on a bead, each about 60 miles across.

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  • Title: Range 1.7 million miles This photo of Venus was taken by the Galileo spacecraft's Solid State Imaging System.
  • Creator: JPL
  • Date Created: 1990-02-14
  • Owner: ARC
  • Album: edrobin1
  • About Title: To help you find images you’re searching for, previously untitled images have been labelled automatically based on their description

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