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 on Wednesday, and published by Russia Today yesterday, the shapes of the lava flows and lava lakes can be seen as bright red spots.
“The team is very excited that the expanded Juno mission will include the study of Jupiter’s moons,” Scott Bolton, principal investigator of the Juno spacecraft program at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in an interview. With each flyby, we were able to gain 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 by Jupiter’s moon Ganymede in 2021 and by Europa earlier this year.
