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High-resolution Voyager 1 view of Jupiter with Io and Europa

High-resolution Voyager 1 view of Jupiter with Io and Europa

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NASA / JPL / Bjorn Jonsson

High-resolution Voyager 1 view of Jupiter with Io and Europa
A double transit of Jupiter by moons Io and Europa, as observed by Voyager 1 on its approach on February 27, 1979. This is a 14-frame mosaic. Most of the data was captured in a 3-by-3 mosaic at around 11:00 on February 27, 1979, but gaps were filled with data taken an hour before and an hour later.

Read Bjorn Jonsson's blog entry about this image for an explanation of how it was produced.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For uses not allowed by that license, contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder: Björn Jónsson

Original image data dated on or about February 27, 1979

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