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Media:  IMAGE
Format:  JPEG (267 x 256)
TIFF (999 x 959)
Date:  01.23.2001
Title:  A New Year for Jupiter and Io
Description: 

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.

ID:  PIA02879
Credit:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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Date: 01.20.2004