Cassini took thousands of High Definition Images near Jupiter and those images are then joined together to form this animation by NASA.

Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill



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46 Comments

  1. “small moons”

    They’re the 4th and 6th largest we know of. The Earth’s Moon is 5th, for comparison.

  2. Cant imagine how terrifying it would feel living on those moons and Jupiter is your horizon 24/7..

  3. Thirsty-Barbarian on

    The perspective or magnification or something makes it look like they just skimmed past each other. They must be much further apart than it looks.

  4. Honestly kinda sad how few sci fi movies are set in just our solar system like this shot is super cinematic.

  5. immortalalchemist on

    What’s crazy about this gif is that Io (closer to Jupiter) orbits faster than Europa, but because the spacecraft was moving past the moons in the opposite direction, it looks like Europa is orbiting faster than Io.

  6. This is so beautiful. It fills me with awe at the vastness and the majesty of our little piece of the cosmos.

    Thank you.

  7. Viablemorgan on

    Bro where the fuck are the mods. Is AI-“enhanced” and bullshit with misleading or often just FALSE titles not against the rules? Feel like all I see is this crap

  8. I was 10 years old when it launched in 1997 and they showed a video on the mission in science class. I remember wondering what I would be doing in that incredibly far off time of the mid 2000s when it would reach Saturn.

  9. Sad-Excitement9295 on

    That’s cool as hell considering the scale of what we’re looking at in this video. Absolutely awesome NASA!

  10. mikefrombarto on

    Stupid question, but can they get close enough to have an effect on the tidal heating that occurs on both moons?

  11. Wow, I’m in the middle of reading 2010: Odyssey Two right now and seeing this is a perfect illustration of the scenery of the book!