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PIA01485: South Polar Region of Io
The South Polar region of Jupiter's moon Io, seen by NASA's Voyager 1 as it passed beneath in the early 1980s.
 Target Name:  Io
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Product Size:  1573 x 1738 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  U.S. Geological Survey 
 Producer ID:  2601518  
 Addition Date:  1998-11-02 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01485.tif (8.229 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01485.jpg (257.5 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

The South Polar region of Jupiter's moon Io, seen by Voyager 1 as it passed beneath.

JPL manages and controls the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/USGS

Image Addition Date:
1998-11-02