Catalog Page for PIA02879 (original) (raw)

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