Artist concept of Galileo encountering Io during its Jupiter approach
Artist concept shows Galileo spacecraft while still approaching Jupiter having a satellite encounter. Galileo is flying about 600 miles above Io's volcano-torn surface, twenty times closer than the closest flyby altitude of Voyager in 1979.
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NASA ID
S89-42941
Date Created
August 25, 1989
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JSC
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image
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