NASA Photo ID: S89-42941 File Name: 10063702.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 08/25/89
Title: Artist concept of Galileo encountering Io during its Jupiter approach
Description:
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.
Subject terms:
GALILEO SPACECRAFT
IO
JUPITER (PLANET)
STS-34
VISUAL AIDS
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