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Asteroid Gaspra a km-wide asteroid that rotates once every six hours Because of its irregular shape gravity is very uneven across the surface Captured by the Galileo spacecraft during its flyby in

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In comet Shoemaker-Levy was ripped apart by Jupiter and came crashing down The largest collision came from fragment G which released the energy equivalent of megatons of TNT The fallout was this huge dark spot km across captured by the Galileo spacecr

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Callisto the third-largest moon in the solar system is tidally locked in its revolution around Jupiter so that Jupiter remains stationary in Callistos sky Photo taken in as the Galileo space probe flew by

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This is Callisto a Jupiter moon discovered by Galileo in and also the third largest moon in our solar system in color

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Jupiters rings were discovered in by the passing Voyager spacecraft but their origin was a mystery Data from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from to later confirmed that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons

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Jupiters Moon Europa from Galileo

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Although the phase of this moon might appear familiar the moon itself might not In fact this gibbous phase shows part of Jupiters moon Europa The robot spacecraft Galileo captured this image mosaic during its mission orbiting Jupiter from -

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The frozen fissured surface of Jupiters moon Europa seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft

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