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Image Advisory

March 3, 2000

Images of two of Jupiter's moons, Io and Europa, taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft during encounters late last year will be unveiled on Monday, March 6, at 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time at the following Internet address

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/new

These are the same images being released by the University of Arizona, Tucson, and they show volcanic features on Io and the side of Europa that faces Jupiter. Pictures from the more recent, closest-every flyby of Io on February 22 are currently being transmitted to Earth and will be processed and then released in the near future.

Galileo has been orbiting Jupiter and its moons since December 1995. After its primary mission ended in December 1997, Galileo successfully completed a two-year extended mission, and it is currently embarking on another extension, called the Galileo Millennium Mission.

More information about the Galileo mission is available at:
http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov

JPL manages Galileo for NASA' s Office of Space Science, Washington, D.C. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.