NASA shares rare images of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io from the Juno spacecraft. Check details here.
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been exploring and studying the giant planet of our solar system Jupiter.
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During its flyby to one of Jupiter’s Moon, it snapped a never-seen image of the Volcanic world that is Io moon.
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Jupiter’s Moon, Io is one of the volcanically active worlds in the solar system due to hundreds of volcanoes erupting setting off lava fountains.
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The Juno spacecraft shot the image when it was just 1500 kilometres away from Io. It captured some of the closest-ever images of the planet, leaving scientists in awe.
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Juno’s flybys will help researchers study other such mysterious and lava-spewing moons present in our solar system or elsewhere.
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Mashable quoted Juno’s mission operator as saying, “The twin flybys are designed to provide new insight into how Io’s volcanic engine works and whether a global magma ocean exists under Io’s rocky, mountainous surface terrain.”
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Io has a high level of volcanic activity, and Juno can determine the surface temperature with its distance.
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Ashley Davies, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said, “It is the purest form of discovery. We're seeing things that we have never seen before.”
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According to NASA, scientists expect that the flyby will help to discover Io’s source of volcanic activity.