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Triple Eclipse

Posted on Friday 5 November 2004


Here we have a picture taken by Hubble's near infrared camera of Jupiter being eclipsed by three of its moons, Io, Europa and Calisto. You can also see in the picture two of the moons that are causing the shadows. Io, appearing here as a white speck due to its sulphurous surface and Europa, shown in icy blue. Jupiter's colours depict clouds of different altitudes.