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PIA02232: Io - High Res Limb
This picture of Io captured by NASA's Voyager 1 was taken on the morning of March 5 at a range of 75,445 kilometers.
 Target Name:  Io
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  794 x 794 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P21220  
 Addition Date:  2000-01-04 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02232.tif (292.4 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02232.jpg (37.1 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

This picture of Io was taken on the morning of March 5 at a rang eof 75,445 kilometers. The area shown is at latitude 15 south longitude 244 . Many depressions and elevations are shown. The light is coming from the left, so a depression has a bright right wall and shadow on the left wall. The depressions are complex in shape and do not resemble impact craters. Two of the depressions are joined by a shallow trough. The elevations are irregular and comical. They are cut by linear and irregular troughs. The surface is smooth and plain-like, that is, the surface is not pockmarked by abundant impact craters so are probably geologically young. The Voyager Project is managed and controlled by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
2000-01-04