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Io and Jupiter

The Galilean satellite Io floats above the cloudtops of Jupiter in this image captured on January 1, 2001, two days after the Cassini spacecraft'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. The Cassini spacecraft left Earth in 1997 and entered Saturn's orbit in July 2005. Scientists hope to keep Cassini orbiting Saturn for at least four years. On its way to Saturn, Cassini passed Jupiter and imaged the planet with the Galileo spacecraft.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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