Jupiter's Great Red Spot from Voyager 1 (2011 May 2)
This is a digital enhancement of Jupiter's Great Red Spot. This is a completed digital enhancement of a image of Jupiter taken in 1979 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The Great Red Spot is a anticyclonic storm and has l jat least 181 years and maybe even longer 346 years but it is unknown why it changes shape, size, and color. Also the Voyager 1 is currently the farthest human made object in the universe at about 117 AU from our planet. It is even expected to leave the heliosphere which is the region dominated by the solar wind and magnetic field. One of the interesting things about this APOD was being able to see the Great Red Spot with a little more depth into it because all the times I have seen the spot was when it's just a circle on the side of Jupiter and how scientists efficiently use information they learned decades ago to help them in their research today.
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