Buy this Io Above Jupiter photo. High quality Cassini space picture, poster, slide, or Duratrans backlit transparency. NASA photograph PIA02879. Wide variety of sizes. Click to see selection as Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) - April 8, 2012. 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. Addition Date: January 22, 2001 Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona |
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