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Galilean satellite Io with Jupiter

by

Nasa/JPL/Novapix

Reference

a-jup06-00010

Date

2006-10-02

This true color composite frame, made from images taken on December 12, 2000 by Cassini spacecraft captures the innermost Galilean satellite, Io, and its shadow in transit again the disk of Jupiter. The distance of the spacecraft from Jupiter was 19.5 million km.