Just Dropped: New Close-up Images of Io from NASAJuno With More to Come images by andrluck and kevinmgill. with insights from volcanopele . Article by Nancy_A
On March 1, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew by Jupiter’s moon Io, coming within 51,500 km of the innermost and third-largest of the four Galilean moons. The stunning new images provide the best and closest view of the most volcanic moon in our Solar System since the New Horizons mission flew past Io and the Jupiter system in 2006 on its way to Pluto.
Jupiter’s moon Io, as seen by the JunoCam instrument on Juno, on March 1, 2023. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ processed by Kevin M. Gill. Cleary, Io still looks like a pizza. The mottled and colorful surface comes from the volcanic activity, with hundreds of vents and calderas on the surface that create a variety of features. Volcanic plumes and lava flows across the surface show up in all sorts of colors, from red and yellow to orange and black. Some of the lava “rivers” stretch for hundreds of kilometers.
In its extended mission, Juno has now orbited Jupiter 49 times, and is on course to study several of Jupiter’s moons. This latest flyby of Io was the third of nine flybys of the volcanic moon over the next year, with the first coming in
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