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PIA09238: Moons around Jupiter

Target Name:	Jupiter
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	New Horizons
Spacecraft:	New Horizons
Instrument:	LORRI
Product Size:	850 x 512 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	Johns Hopkins University/APL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA09238.tif (435.9 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA09238.jpg (13.74 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) took this photo of Jupiter at 20:42:01 UTC on January 9, 2007, when the spacecraft was 80 million kilometers (49.6 million miles) from the giant planet. The volcanic moon Io is to the left of the planet; the shadow of the icy moon Ganymede moves across Jupiter's northern hemisphere.

Ganymede's average orbit distance from Jupiter is about 1 million kilometers (620,000 miles); Io's is 422,000 kilometers (262,000 miles). Both Io and Ganymede are larger than Earth's moon; Ganymede is larger than the planet Mercury.

Image Credit:

NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

Image Addition Date:

2007-04-02