Io Moon (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Io Moon

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The moon Io orbits Jupiter in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. 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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Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

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