NASA's Juno spacecraft's mission to Jupiter has set its sights on the moon Io.
The agency said in a release, sharing a striking image of the moon's volcano-laced surface captured in the infrared by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper this summer, that it was scheduled to image the Jovian moon on Thursday. The July 5 photo was captured as the spacecraft flew by at a distance of about 50,000 miles, with brighter spots indicating where temperatures were higher."The team is really excited to have Juno’s extended mission include the study of Jupiter’s moons.
Io, the most volcanically active world in the solar system, will remain an object of the Juno team’s attention for the next year and a half. Now in the second year of its mission to investigate Jupiter's interior, the solar-powered Juno had previously performed close flybys of Ganymede last year and Europa earlier in 2022.
This is the final view taken by the JunoCam instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft before Juno's instruments were powered down in preparation for orbit insertion. Juno obtained this color view on June 29, 2016, at a distance of 3.3 million miles
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