esahubble_heic1504f February 5th, 2015
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image capturesa rare occurrence as three of Jupiters largest moons parade across the giant gas planets banded face. The image shows the end of the event. Europa has entered the frame at lower left with slower-moving Callisto above and to the right of it. Meanwhile Io which orbits significantly closer to Jupiter is approaching the eastern limb of the planet. The movement of the moons is shown in the video created from Hubble stills and an annotated version is also available.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1504f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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