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Jupiter and Io

Photo: A crescent view of Jupiter with its moon Io
NASA's Cassini spacecraft looked back and snapped this image of Jupiter and its crescent moon Io on January 15, 2001, 17 days after the spacecraft passed Jupiter on its way to a 2004 appointment with Saturn.
Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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