PIA02879: A New Year for Jupiter and Io
The Galilean satellite Io floats above the cloudtops of Jupiter in this image captured by NASA's Cassini orbiter on the dawn of the new millennium, January 1, 2001.
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Cassini-Huygens 
 Spacecraft:  Cassini Orbiter
 Instrument:  Imaging Science Subsystem 
 Product Size:  999 x 959 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  CICLOPS / University of Arizona 
 Primary Data Set:  Cassini 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA02879.tif (2.004 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA02879.jpg (41.52 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

The Galilean satellite Io floats above the cloudtops of Jupiter in this image captured on the dawn of the new millennium, January 1, 2001 10:00 UTC (spacecraft time), two days after Cassini'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.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Image Addition Date:
2001-01-23