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PIA00010: Io with Loki Plume on Bright Limb
NASA's Voyager 1 image of Io showing active plume of Loki on limb. Heart-shaped feature southeast of Loki consists of fallout deposits from active plume Pele.
 Target Name:  Io
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Product Size:  684 x 803 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  U.S. Geological Survey 
 Addition Date:  1996-06-03 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00010.tif (1.65 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00010.jpg (50.29 kB)  

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NASA's Voyager 1 image of Io showing active plume of Loki on limb. Heart-shaped feature southeast of Loki consists of fallout deposits from active plume Pele. The images that make up this mosaic were taken from an average distance of approximately 490,000 kilometers (340,000 miles).

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/USGS

Image Addition Date:
1996-06-03