Jupiter and Io

stsci_2020-38a July 29th, 2020

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

The moon Io orbits Jupiter in this image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Io is similar in size to Earth’s moon. Jupiter and Io appear deceptively close in this image, when in fact the moon is orbiting 217,000 miles from the gas giant planet.

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Image Type: Planetary
Object Name: Jupiter • Io
Subject - Solar System: Planet > Satellite; Planet > Type > Gas Giant

Position Details

Position (ICRS): RA = 19h 16m 54.9s; DEC = -22° 39’ 51.4”
Constellation: Sagittarius

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Cassini (Imaging Science Subsystem)	Optical	-

ID: 2020-38a
Subject Category: A.1.4 A.1.1.2
Subject Name: Jupiter, Io
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Release Date: 2020-07-29T00:00:00
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Reference Url: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2020/news-2020-38

Type: Planetary
Image Quality: Good
Distance Notes

Facility: Cassini
Instrument: Imaging Science Subsystem
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Band: Optical
Bandpass
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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: 2000.0
Reference Value: 289.2286250, -22.6642639
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Resource ID: STSCI-J-p2038a-f-999x959.tif

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Metadata Date: 2021-12-14T13:26:19-05:00
Metadata Version: 1.2

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