Awe the details about Jupiter's volcanic moon

Stunning images show its volcanic moon tothe IoIn stunning detail the closest flight in twenty years. NASA's Juno spacecraft approached at a distance of approx 1,500 kilometers from the surface of the world's most volcanic solar system On December 30 he gave Screenshots Which caused fear.

The space agency explained that this pass, as well as others, was transferred to the authorities Februaryis expected to allow Juno Tools to create a “data pipeline.”

Extreme interest in Jupiter's moons

The satellite completed 56 orbits around Jupiter and recorded close encounters with three of the four largest giant moons, Io, Ganymede and Europa.

“By combining data from this flyby with our previous observations, the Juno science team is studying how Io's volcanoes differ,” said Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

“We're looking at how often it erupts, how bright and hot it is, how the shape of the lava flow changes, and how Io's activity relates to the flow of charged particles in Jupiter's magnetosphere,” he said.

400 active volcanoes

The probe's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), which takes infrared images, collected heat signatures emanating from 400 active volcanoes and additional extinct calderas covering the moon's surface.

Io's volcanic activity is responsible for many of its unique features. Its volcanic plumes and lava flows cause significant surface changes and paint the surface in various shades of yellow, red, white, black and green, largely due to allotropes and sulfur compounds.

According to other published studies of Io, the constant pressure comes from a combination of forces, some known and some unknown. It is known that its interior is subject to enormous friction from the gravity of the great planet Jupiter and the other Galilean moons, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede.