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PIA02879: A New Year for Jupiter and Io
A New Year for Jupiter and Io
Target Name: Jupiter
Is a satellite of: Sol (our sun)
Mission: Cassini-Huygens
Spacecraft: Cassini Orbiter
Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem
Product Size: 999 samples x 959 lines
Produced By: CICLOPS / University of Arizona
Primary Data Set: Cassini
Full-Res TIFF: PIA02879.tif (2.004 MB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA02879.jpg (41.52 kB)

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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.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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