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Collection:
NASA Solarsystem Collection
title:
Ganymede's Shadow
description:
The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this photo of Jupiter at 20:42:01 UTC on January 9, 2007, when the spacecraft was 80 million kilometers (49.6 million miles) from the giant planet. The volcanic moon Io is to the left of the planet; the shadow of the icy moon Ganymede moves across Jupiter's northern hemisphere.

Ganymede's average orbit distance from Jupiter is about 1 million kilometers (620,000 miles); Io's is 422,000 kilometers (262,000 miles). Both Io and Ganymede are larger than Earth's moon; Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury.

Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
date:
01.09.2007
keywords:
Solar System Exploration
keywords:
SSE
keywords:
Space
keywords:
NASA
keywords:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
keywords:
JPL
keywords:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
keywords:
Planets
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Mercury
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Jupiter
facet_what:
Imager
facet_what:
Io
facet_what:
New Horizons
facet_what:
Ganymede
facet_what:
Long Range Reconnaissance Imager
facet_what:
LORRI
facet_what:
Ganymede (Jupiter Moon)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Mercury
facet_where:
Jupiter
facet_where:
Ganymede
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
January 9, 2007
facet_when:
01-09-2007
facet_when_year:
2007
UID:
SPD-SLRSY-5225
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Ganymede's Shadow