| NASA Center: |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
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| Image # : |
PIA01481 |
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| Date : |
06/22/1979
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Title
Jupiter System Montage
Full Description
Jupiter and its four planet-size moons, called the Galilean satellites,
were photographed in early March 1979 by Voyager 1 and assembled into this
collage. They are not to scale but are in their relative positions.
Startling new discoveries on the Galilean moons and the planet Jupiter
made by Voyager l factored into a new mission design for
Voyager 2. Reddish Io (upper left) is nearest Jupiter; then Europa
(center); Ganymede and Callisto (lower right). Nine other much smaller
satellites circle Jupiter, one inside Io's orbit and the other millions
of miles from the planet. Not visible is Jupiter's faint ring of
particles, seen for the first time by Voyager 1.
The Voyager Project is managed for NASA's Office of Space Science by
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
Keywords
Jupiter Galilean satellites Voyager 1 Io Europa Ganymede Callisto Rings Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL Office of Space Science and Applications Moon
Subject Category
Planet-Jupiter, Jupiters Moons, Voyager-Galileo,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
JPL
- Center Number:
PIA01481
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-000451
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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827 |
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Large |
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2081 |
1654 |
1,311 |
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