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Image taken on 6/26/96.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS) is seen edge on as Galileo views the planet rotating away.The storm is larger than one Earth diameter (13,000 kilometers or 8,000 miles) in the north-south direction and more than two Earth diameters in the east-west direction.In this oblique view, where the GRS is on the planet's limb(the apparent "edge"), it appears longer in the north-south direction. P-48114
D = 1.46 million km
Res = 53 km (horiz) 37 km (vert.)
Center = 22.3° S 318° W
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