NASA's Juno spacecraft is getting closer and closer to Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. The pictures will get better and better.
This composite image shows how volcanoes dot Io’s surface. It was created with Juno’s JIRAM instrument and its JunoCam instrument. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM
Io, the Moon, and Earth. Image Credit: By Apollo 17 Picture of the Whole Earth: NASATelescopic Image of the Full Moon: Gregory H. Revera True colour image of Io: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona – The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpgFullMoon2010.jpgIo_highest_resolution_true_color.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39083698
Future flybys later this year will come even closer, down to only 1500 km. The combined images from all of these flybys will reveal a lot. This global mosaic of Io was pieced together with images from Voyager 1. The left is the eastern hemisphere. Image Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS
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