Wikipedia:Picture of the day/December 16, 2004

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Picture of the day

Io moon

Io moon taken by NASA's Galileo probe. This image shows two volcanic eruptions. The one on the horizon is 140km high, the other is 75km high. Io is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. It is named after Io, one of Zeus's many love interests in Greek mythology.

Photo credit: NASA
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