New Images of Jupiter's Moon Io Capture Infernal Volcanic Landscape (nytimes.com) 16
NASA's Juno spacecraft made its closest flyby yet of Io, one of Jupiter's largest moons, sending back images of "sharp cliffs, edgy mountain peaks, lakes of pooled lava and even a volcanic plume," reports the New York Times. From the report: The Juno spacecraft, designed to study the origin and evolution of Jupiter, arrived at the planet in 2016. NASA extended the mission in 2021, and the orbiter has since captured photos of the Jovian moons Ganymede, Europa and most recently Io. [...] Juno conducted a number of more distant observations of Io in recent years. Its latest flyby occurred on Dec. 30, when the spacecraft came within 932 miles of the moon. The images captured during this visit were made with an instrument called JunoCam and are in visible wavelengths. They are some of the highest resolution views of Io's global structure. The mission's managers shared six images of Io on the mission's website, and members of the public have since uploaded digitally enhanced versions that highlight features on Io's surface.
Mission scientists are already at work analyzing these images, searching for differences across Io's surface to learn how often its volcanoes erupt, how bright and hot those eruptions are and how the resulting lava flows. According to Dr. Bolton, the team will also compare Juno's images to older views of the Jovian moon to determine what has changed on Io over a variety of encounters. And they'll get a second set of data to work with in a month, when Juno completes another close flyby of the explosive world on Feb. 3.
Mission scientists are already at work analyzing these images, searching for differences across Io's surface to learn how often its volcanoes erupt, how bright and hot those eruptions are and how the resulting lava flows. According to Dr. Bolton, the team will also compare Juno's images to older views of the Jovian moon to determine what has changed on Io over a variety of encounters. And they'll get a second set of data to work with in a month, when Juno completes another close flyby of the explosive world on Feb. 3.
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Can an admin ban this serially off topic nutter? He's posting this nonsense on every article now.
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/. mods don't care. Goatse links, swastikas and racist slurs have persisted here for decades
They send reporters to Jupiter? (Score:1)
Space.com has a better article, without paywall (Score:5, Informative)
The vulcanism in the twin-shot in the article is amazing!
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I wonder who confused infernal with internal? Or are these all handled by AI now
Maybe we will get a story about replacing infernal combustion engines next
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>I wonder who confused infernal with internal?
the devil made him do it!
I had assumed that someone just didn't know the difference between "infernal" and "inferno", but this might make more sense.
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I wonder who confused infernal with internal? Or are these all handled by AI now
Maybe we will get a story about replacing infernal combustion engines next
Those blasted, fiendish volcanos!
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Lava plumes are usually not internal. It's inferno-like.
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So noted, Hell is on Io
Stop using NYT as a source (Score:1)