The Juno mission was making its 51st flyby of the gas giant planet and its moons when it viewed the 'tortured moon' Io in stunning detail.
Some of the detailed images taken by Juno and its visible light imager JunoCam show the Io's red-hued surface scarred by its fiery
. An infrared view of the moon captured earlier during a May 1 flyby by Juno's JIRAM shows the source of this scarring, revealing multiple hotspots of volcanic activity over the surface of the moon. "Io is the most volcanic celestial body that we know of in our solar system," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton"By observing it over time on multiple passes, we can watch how the volcanoes vary — how often they erupt, how bright and hot they are, whether they are linked to a group or solo, and if the shape of the lava flow changes."
Juno observed Jupiter's moon Io in visible and infrared light during a May 1, 2023 flyby, yielding this composite view showing hot spots across the surface of the solar system's most volcanically active world. NASA estimates that there are hundreds of actively erupting volcanoes over the surface of Io, the third largest moon of Jupiter, and the fifth from the gas giant located at around at 262,000 miles from its surface.
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