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ARC-1979-AC79-0143-4
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Photo by Voyager 1 Jupiter's satellite Io poses before the giant planet in this photo returned Jan 17, 1979 from a distance of 29 million miles (47 million kilometers). The satellite's shadow can be seen falling on the face of Jupiter at left. Io is traveling from left to right in its one-and-three-quarter-day orbit around Jupiter. Even from this great distance the image of Io shows dark poles and bright equatorial region.
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Credit lineARC-1979-AC79-0143-4. NASA/ARC, 1979-01-17. Public domain. ID: ARC-1979-AC79-0143-4.
