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NEWS - Press Releases - 2000
New From Cassini: Jupiter Family Pictures
December 21, 2000
Contact:
Guy Webster, JPL, (818) 354-6278
Lori Stiles, University of Arizona, (520) 626-4402
With the huge, colorful face of Jupiter as a backdrop to keep sizes in
perspective, three of that planet's four major moons are on display in new
images for release today and tomorrow from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
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Europa and Callisto are aligned with each other and the center of Jupiter
in a true-color Cassini picture available online today from NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pictures/jupiter
and from the web site of the Cassini Imaging Science team at the
University of Arizona, Tucson, at:
http://ciclops.lpl.arizona.edu/.
A Cassini picture of the moon Ganymede at Jupiter will be available
Friday, Dec. 22.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter for five years,
recently found evidence of a liquid ocean hidden below Ganymede's surface.
Galileo will fly past Ganymede for another close encounter on Dec. 28.
Cassini will pass Jupiter at a distance of about 9.7 million kilometers (6
million miles) on Dec. 30. The spacecraft will use a boost from Jupiter's
gravity to reach its ultimate destination, Saturn, in July 2004.
Additional information from collaborative studies of Jupiter by Cassini
and NASA's Galileo spacecraft is available online at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jupiterflyby.
Additional information about Cassini is available online at:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov.
Cassini is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and
the Italian Space Agency. JPL manages the Cassini and Galileo missions for
NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of the
California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Media Relations Office
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Pasadena, Calif. 91109.
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