The Jovian Planets

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The Jovian Planets Their Satellites - Jupiter
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Jupiter from Voyager 1
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Jupiters Galilean Satellites (Plus Amalthea)
Io
Europa
Amalthea
Ganymede
Callisto
(From Apollo 17 - 1972)
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Jupiters Great Red Spot
Earth on same scale
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Jupiter (Complex Atmospheric Motions)
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Jupiter (Lightning Aurorae in the Jovian Night)
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Jupiter (Io Europa in the Orbits)
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Jupiter (Ring System)
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Io (True Color Image)
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Io (Before After an Eruption)
400 km
Pillan Patera
Pele
April 4, 1997
September 17, 1997
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Io (Liquid Sulfur Lake near Loki Volcano)
200 km
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Io (Eruption Near Pele Volcano)
300 km
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Europa
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Europa (Ice Rafting)
250 km
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Europa (Chaotic Surface)
35 km
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Ganymede
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Ganymede (Young Craters on Grooved Terrain)
Gula - 38 km
Achelous - 32 km
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Callisto
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Callisto (Double Ringed Har Crater)
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Ganymede (Impact af a Comet Torn Asunder by
Jupiter)
Boundary between bright dark region
200 km
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Mimas Tethys Dione
Rhea
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Saturn (Red Oval in the Southern Hemisphere)
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Saturn (Storms in the Northern Hemisphere)
3000 km
Voyager 2
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Saturn (Exquisite Rings, Shadows Two Moons)
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Saturn (Complex Ring System)
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Saturns Mid-Sized Moons
Rhea (diam 1530 km)
Iapetus (diam 1440 km)
Tethys (diam 1050 km)
Dione (diam 1120 km)
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Saturns Smaller-Sized Moons
Herschel Crater
Mimas (diam 390 km)
Enceladus (diam 500 km)
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Saturns Moon Phoebe Beautifully cratered moon is
about 220 km in diameter
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute image
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Saturn (Two Non-Spherical Moons)
Helene (40 x 30 x 30 km)
Hyperion (410 x 260 x 220 km)
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Titan (From Voyager 2 Ground-based Adaptive
Optics)
Keck 10-m Telescope Adaptive Optics System 27 Feb
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Voyager 2 Spacecraft Image
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The Cassini-Huygens Mission A Joint NASA/ESA
Mission to the Saturn System Launched August 1997
and Arrived July 2004 See www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cas
sini-Huygens/index.html and saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/ho
me/index.cfm This supplement is for your viewing
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the following images.
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Huygens Descent to Titans Surface An artists
concept anticipating the 14 January 2005 landing
European Space Agency
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Cassini View of Saturn Eclipsing Sun Spacecraft
moving through shadow produced this mosaic of
images on 15 Sep 06 The small dot just to the
upper left of the outer brightest ring is the
Earth!
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute image
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Huygens Descent to Titans Surface View from
about 25 miles elevation
NASA/JPL/ESA/University of Arizona
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Huygens Radar Imagery of Titans Lakes This view
of liquid methane and ethane lakes on Saturns
moon Titan is of an area 310 x 100 km.
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute image
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Titans Surface Imaged by Huygens Lander With an
inset to the same scale of our Moons surface
NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute image