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This image, shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet, on July 24, 1996. The conspicuous black spot on Jupiter is Io's shadow.

The smallest details visible on Io and Jupiter are about 100 miles across (about 160 kilometres). Bright patches visible on Io are regions of sulfur dioxide frost. Io is roughly the size of Earth's moon, but 2000 times farther away.

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24 July 1996

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J. Spencer (Lowell Observatory), and NASA/ESA

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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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current	19:56, 7 January 2019	720 × 600 (152 KB)	Kesäperuna (talk \| contribs)	100% JPEG quality from full quality TIFF.
	18:19, 29 July 2009	720 × 600 (75 KB)	Tryphon (talk \| contribs)	Original image from http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/large/opo9630a.jpg.
	07:18, 5 January 2007	736 × 612 (67 KB)	Shushruth (talk \| contribs)	{{Information \|Description=Public Domain photo of en:Jupiter and its moon en:Io taken by en:Hubble Space Telescope. Jupiter\|Io \|Source=Originally from [http://en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia]; descripti