NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured an infrared image of Jupiter’s moon, Io, 50,000 miles away.
And in the image, taken on July 5, which was released last Wednesday, and was published by Russia Today, yesterday, the forms of lava flows and lava lakes can be seen as bright red spots.
“The team is very excited that the expanded Juno mission will include studying Jupiter’s moons,” Scott Bolton, principal investigator for the Juno spacecraft program at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in an interview. With each close flight, we were able to obtain a wealth of new information.”
“Juno’s sensors are designed to study Jupiter, but we are pleased with how well they can do double duty when observing Jupiter’s moons,” he added.
The Juno space probe has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. After studying the gas giant (Jupiter), Juno flew near Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in 2021 and next to Europa earlier this year.