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Europa peeks from behind Jupiter

Filed under pretty pictures, many worlds, amateur image processing, Jupiter, Jupiter's moons, Europa, Voyager 1 and 2

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Europa peeks from behind Jupiter On July 3, 1979, as Voyager 2 approached Jupiter, it caught Europa coyly ducking behind Jupiter's dark limb.

NASA / JPL / Daniel Macháček

Copyright holder: Daniel Macháček

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about July 3, 1979

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