... Crossing in front of Jupiter's banded cloud tops Europa, Callisto, and Io are framed from lower left to upper right in a rare triple-moon conjunction. ...
... This sharp picture of moon Io against a background of gas giant Jupiter's diffuse swirling cloud bands was recorded by Voyager's camera from a distance of about 5 million miles. ...
... The moon Metis , 25 miles wide and about 80,000 miles from the planet, is the bright spot at the upper right. ... Metis lies within Jupiter's faint, tenuous ring , and may be a source of ring material. ...
... With the two moon shadows still in transit, Jupiter's rapid rotation has almost carried its famous Great Red Spot (GRS) around the planet's limb from the right. ...
... Lacking another body to perturb it, the Moon is not heated by Earth in this way.) ... Io also cuts across Jupiter's magnetic field lines, generating an electric current. ...
... December 20, 1999 . Lava Fountain on Jupiter's Io . Credit: Galileo Project , SSI , University of Arizona , JPL , NASA . ... Explanation: A lava fountain shooting over a kilometer high has been discovered on Jupiter 'smoon Io . ...
... Explanation : Caught in the act earlier this summer by the Hubble Space Telescope, the volcanic moon Io (above and right of center) and its shadow (black dot) are seen here against Jupiter's clouds . ...
... It made extensive surveys of the Jovian moons and the probe descended into Jupiter's atmosphere to provide our first direct evidence of the interior of a gas giant. ...