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Wallpaper version of the most recent and incredibly detailed view of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, sunlit on the left half of the sphere. Sharp, jagged peaks and craters of volcanoes line the region directly next to the terminator.

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Wallpaper version of the most recent and incredibly detailed view of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, sunlit on the left half of the sphere. Sharp, jagged peaks and craters of volcanoes line the region directly next to the terminator.
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SETI Institute (setiinstitute@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 06:52:35 JST SETI Institute

#PPOD: Amazing new images of Jupiter's moon Io have come down from NASA's Juno spacecraft! This one shows the volcanic world from only 2,800 kilometers away, which is the closest look we’ve gotten of Io in over 20 years of missions. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
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