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Created using data collected by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, this animation is an artist's concept that shows a view of a mountain on the Jovian moon Io. The data was recorded during close flybys of the moon in December 2023 and February 2024. The mountain, which the Juno science team has nicknamed "Steeple Mountain," is ...
The primary observation target is Jupiter itself, although limited images of some of Jupiter's moons have been taken and more are intended. [5] JunoCam successfully returned detailed images of Ganymede after Juno's flyby on June 7, 2021, [ 6 ] with further opportunities including planned flybys of Europa on September 29, 2022, and two of Io ...
English: Image of Jupiter's moon Io, taken by the JunoCam instrument during Juno's perijove 8 pass. Left image is the raw data from JunoCam, right image is the processed image by Roman Tkachenko. Left image is the raw data from JunoCam, right image is the processed image by Roman Tkachenko.
Flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io, the only known volcanic world in our solar system, have captured images of a massive lava lake and a towering Matterhorn-like mountain.
English: This is the highest resolution image acquired by the Juno spacecraft's JunoCam instrument during the mission's flyby of Io on October 15, 2023. It was acquired from a distance of 11,680 kilometers and has a pixel scale of 3.9 kilometers per pixel (enlarged by 2x from the original 7.86 kilometers per pixel).
But the moon’s wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979, revealing Io’s dynamic surface that resembled a pepperoni pizza, Bolton said.
While those twirling clouds may look like the work of a post-impressionist painter, they're all Jupiter. The colors, however, had some help from citizen scientists who used NASA's JunoCam images ...
Io (/ ˈ aɪ. oʊ /), or Jupiter I, is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System, has the highest density of any moon, the strongest surface gravity of any moon, and the lowest amount of water by atomic ratio of any known astronomical object in the Solar System.