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ARC-1979-A79-7022
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Range : 7 million kilometers (4.3 million miles) Io is Jupiter's innermost of the four Galilean satellites. Photo taken at 2:00 AM through an ultraviolet filter. The photo's background is part of Jupiter's disk. North is at the top and the central longitude of Io is 180 degrees. Io shows a contrasting surface with dark polar areas and many light and dark regions around the equator. This resolution of about 100 miles/160 kilometers, no topographic features, like craters, can be seen.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineARC-1979-A79-7022. NASA/ARC, 1979-02-27. Public domain. ID: ARC-1979-A79-7022.
