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This image of Neptune shows the discovery of shadows in Neptune's atmosphere, shadows cast onto a deep cloud band by small elevated clouds. They are the first cloud shadows ever seen by NASA's Voyager on any planet.
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Neptune Shadows

This image of Neptune shows the discovery of shadows in Neptune's atmosphere, shadows cast onto a deep cloud band by small elevated clouds. They are the first cloud shadows ever seen by Voyager on any planet. Estimates of the height of these discrete clouds above the underlying cloud bank can be obtained by careful analysis of this data. The Voyager Mission is conducted by JPL for NASA'S Office of Space Science and Applications.

Image details

ID#:
PIA02220

Date added:
1999-10-15

Target:
Neptune

Mission:
Voyager

Spacecraft:
Voyager 2

Instruments:
Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle

Size:
425 x 720 pixels (width x height)

Rating:



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2,282

Full-Res TIFF:
PIA02220.tif (0.11 MB)

Full-Res JPG:
PIA02220.jpg (0.02 MB)

Image credit:
NASA/JPL