It looks like pizza: a NASA spacecraft took a clear photo of Jupiter’s moon
In early March, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured new images of Jupiter’s satellite Io. This is reported by Universe today. These are the clearest and closest images of the most volcanic moon in our solar system since the New Horizons mission flew past Io and Jupiter in 2006 on its way to Pluto. According to astronomers, Io, one of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, resembles a “pizza”. There are hundreds of volcanic vents on the surface of the satellite. Its surface is mottled and colorful, which is the result of volcanic activity. Jupiter’s moon Io, Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/ processed by Kevin M. Gill Lava plumes and flows across the surface form multicolored “rivers” ranging in color from red and yellow to orange and black. Some of these lava “rivers” stretch for hundreds of kilometers. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, processed by Andrea Luck Juno has so far flown by Jupiter 49 times and is about to study several of Jupiter’s moons. The next flight is planned for next year. Jupiter’s moons were discovered by Galileo Galilei on January 7, 1610 with the help of his world’s first telescope. Read also: NASA showed a green aurora from space. PHOTO
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