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The Cassini spacecraft is bound for Saturn after getting a gravitational boost from Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. During its December 2000 flyby, Cassini snapped this image of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow two Earths side by side, as well as Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, at left. Cassini studied Jupiter for several weeks as it passed the planet. [Credit: NASA]
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