Jupiter's moon, Io, is simply littered with volcanoes. NASA's Juno spacecraft has got some great close-ups and other data on the 127-mile-long (200-kilometer-long) lava lake on Io called Loki Patera.
Juno made extremely close flybys of Io, Jupiter’s moon, in December 2023 and February 2024, obtaining the first close-up images of the moon’s northern latitudes.NASA launched Juno, the solar-powered spacecraft back in 2011. It took about six years for Juno to cruise over to Jupiter, however. Juno looks like a propeller that’s been orbiting around our solar system’s biggest planet for about eight years now. It has captured stunning images and collected groundbreaking data.
NASA isn’t looking for liquid water. They want to know how much oxygen and hydrogen molecules are in Jupiter’s atmosphere. This is critical piece in the puzzle of how this solar system came into being. Galileo was the last spacecraft that cruised around Jupiter back in 1995. That mission changed our understanding of the solar system but left NASA with more questions than answers. That’s why they sent
So how did Jupiter form? NASA doesn’t know. Juno is showing them that “the core of the gas giant suggests a very low water abundance.”to study the situation more in-depth. It cruised on over to Io to a remarkable closeness: 10,250 miles of the moon’s surface. It captured some close-ups of the most volatile body in our solar system.
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