March 24, 2016 at 8:54 pm
Picture of the Day: Jupiter’s Moon Io Casts a Shadow as It Transits Jupiter
Did you know Io’s shadow sails across the face of Jupiter at 38,000 mph (17 kilometers per second)!
Did you know Io’s shadow sails across the face of Jupiter at 38,000 mph (17 kilometers per second)!
Light travels at a speed of 299,792 km per second (186,282 mps). That’s fast. Jupiter is 778,500,000 km (483,737,000 miles) from the Sun. That’s far. To try to convey the vastness of space, Alphonse Swinehart created this animation to illustrate that even at the blistering speed of light, it takes over 43 minutes just…
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