Scientists on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that highlight two of the Jovian moon's most dramatic features: a mountain and an almost glass-smooth lake of cooling lava.
NASA's Juno gives aerial views of mountain and lava lake on Io retrieved 18 April 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-juno-aerial-views-mountain.html
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