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Glowing Tvashtar

Glowing Tvashtar

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Glowing Tvashtar
New Horizons captured this view of a crescent Io on March 1, 2007, 19 hours after its losest approach to Jupiter. The dayside is deliberately overexposed to bring out faint details in the plumes and on the moon's night side. The plume erupting 330 kilome

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Original image data dated on or about March 1, 2007

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