PIA02879_-_A_New_Year_for_Jupiter_and_Io.jpg


Description Released with Image The Galilean satellite Io floats above the cloudtops of Jupiter in this image captured on the dawn of the new millennium, January 1, 2001 10:00 UTC (spacecraft time), two days after Cassini's closest approach. The image is deceiving: there are 350,000 kilometers -- roughly 2.5 Jupiters -- between Io and Jupiter's clouds. Io is the size of our Moon, and Jupiter is very big.
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Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02879
Author NASA/JPL/University of Arizona


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1 January 2001