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Jupiter's clouds - 727 nnmts filter
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All the already mentined Jovian features have also been seen from ground-based telescopes, from NASA's HST and from NASA's Galileo spacecraft.
Chief among these features is the very dark patch seen in the weak methane image (619 nnmts) near the top-middle of the frame.
It is almost invisible in the next image (890 nnmts) and it appears to be composed of strands of bright clouds in this frame (727 nnmts).
This is a Region similar to the "hot spot" where the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995.
These images indicate that cloud cover is present at the higher altitudes but absent from the lower altitudes and this is also what the Galileo Probe found when it entered Jupiter's atmosphere.
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