2023-10-20 20:00:00
Written by Amira Shehata Friday, October 20, 2023 11:00 PM NASA’s Juno mission captured new views of Jupiter’s moon “Io” and its lava-filled surface, during its recent flyby as Juno passed near the fifth moon of Jupiter, which is the most volcanically active body in the system. Solar. According to the “space” website, the surface of the moon appears to be dyed with swirls of light and dark spots and large areas of molten red spots in new images shared by NASA on the X website (formerly Twitter). Image of Mars and the Moon Volcanic activity on Io has created lakes of molten silicate lava on its surface, and dark red molten spots can be seen spread across the Moon in detailed new images from Juno, which were processed by citizen scientists using raw data captured by the spacecraft. Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, and is home to hundreds of volcanoes that regularly erupt with molten lava, spewing plumes of sulfur gas hundreds of miles up into the atmosphere, which can be seen with large telescopes on Earth. Jupiter’s moon Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has a total of 92 moons. Io is slightly larger than Earth’s moon and the fourth largest moon in the solar system. It is the third largest moon of Jupiter. The data collected by the instrument was used JunoCam used the flyby to create these shots of the volcanic moon, capturing its surface from different angles as the spacecraft passed overhead.
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