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 ====== NASA Image of the Day ======
-Date: **Sun 28th June, 2020**\\
+Date: **Mon 29th April, 2024**\\
-Title: **Europa and Jupiter from Voyager 1**
+Title: **Comet, Planet, Moon**
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-What are those spots on Jupiter? Largest and furthest, just right of center, is the Great Red Spot -- a huge storm system that has been raging on Jupiter possibly since Giovanni Cassini's likely notation of it 355 years ago.
+Three bright objects satisfied seasoned stargazers of the western sky just after sunset earlier this month. The most familiar was the Moon, seen on the upper left in a crescent phase. The rest of the Moon was faintly visible by sunlight first reflected by the Earth. The bright planet Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, is seen to the upper left.
-It is not yet known why this Great Spot is red. The spot toward the lower left is one of Jupiter's largest moons: Europa. Images from Voyager in 1979 bolster the modern hypothesis that Europa has an underground ocean and is therefore a good place to look for extraterrestrial life. But what about the dark spot on the upper right? That is a shadow of another of Jupiter's large moons: Io. Voyager 1 discovered Io to be so volcanic that no impact craters could be found.
+Most unusual was Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, below the Moon and showing a stubby dust tail on the right but an impressive ion tail extending upwards.
-Sixteen frames from Voyager 1's flyby of Jupiter in 1979 were recently reprocessed and merged to create the featured image.
+The featured image, a composite of several images taken consecutively at the same location and with the same camera, was taken near the village of Llers, in Spain's Girona province.
-About 43 years ago, Voyager 1 launched from Earth and started one of the greatest explorations of the Solar System ever.
+Comet Pons-Brooks passed its closest to the Sun last week and is now dimming as it moves into southern skies and returns to the outer Solar System.
-Free Download: Voyager Posters
+ Almost Hyperspace: Random APOD Generator
-[[https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2006/EuropaJupiter_Voyager_2792.jpg|{{https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2006/EuropaJupiter_Voyager_960.jpg?800|Click image to enlarge}}]]
+[[https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2404/CometTriple_Casado_2000.jpg|{{https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2404/CometTriple_Casado_1080.jpg?800|Click image to enlarge}}]]
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+Image copyright: Juan Carlos Casado<html><sup></html>(c)<html></sup></html>\\
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+//If you leave a comment below, please enter the date when referring to images. I can go back and fetch images for a specific date if you request it.//
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