Io's Shadow on Jupiter

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Jupiter's moon Io casts a shadow on the surface of the planet. NASA's Juno space probe was in close proximity to Jupiter when it captured this fish-eye view, showing a small area near the planet's equator. Io's shadow is about 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) wide, approximately the same width as Io, but appears much larger relative to Jupiter. The raw data for this image was taken on Sept. 11, 2019 at 8:41 p.m. PDT (11:41 p.m. EDT). The Juno spacecraft was about 4,885 miles (7,862 kilometers) from the cloud tops at a latitude of 21 degrees.

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