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NASA Solarsystem Collection
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NASA Solarsystem Collection
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Io and Ganymede
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Io and Ganymede
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The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this 4-millisecond exposure of Jupiter and two of its moons at 01:41:04 UTC on January 17, 2007. The spacecraft was 68.5 million kilometers (42.5 million miles) from Jupiter, closing in on the giant planet at 41,500 miles (66,790 kilometers) per hour. The volcanic moon Io is the closest planet to the right of Jupiter; the icy moon Ganymede is to Io's right. The shadows of each satellite are visible atop Jupiter's clouds; Ganymede's shadow is draped over Jupiter's northwestern limb.
Ganymede's average orbit distance from Jupiter is about 1.07 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
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The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this 4-millisecond exposure of Jupiter and two of its moons at 01:41:04 UTC on January 17, 2007. The spacecraft was 68.5 million kilometers (42.5 million miles) from Jupiter, closing in on the giant planet at 41,500 miles (66,790 kilometers) per hour. The volcanic moon Io is the closest planet to the right of Jupiter; the icy moon Ganymede is to Io's right. The shadows of each satellite are visible atop Jupiter's clouds; Ganymede's shadow is draped over Jupiter's northwestern limb.
Ganymede's average orbit distance from Jupiter is about 1.07 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
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01.17.2007
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Solar System Exploration
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Solar System Exploration
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SSE
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Space
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NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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JPL
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Planets
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Planets
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Earth
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Earth
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Mercury
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Mercury
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Moon
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Moon
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Jupiter
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Jupiter
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Imager
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Imager
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Io
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New Horizons
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New Horizons
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Ganymede
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Ganymede
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Long Range Reconnaissance Imager
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Long Range Reconnaissance Imager
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LORRI
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LORRI
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Ganymede (Jupiter Moon)
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Ganymede (Jupiter Moon)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Mercury
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Mercury
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Jupiter
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Jupiter
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Ganymede
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Ganymede
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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January 17, 2007
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January 17, 2007
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01-17-2007
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01-17-2007
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2007
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2007
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SPD-SLRSY-5223
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