Juno JIRAM Io Hot Spots (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Juno JIRAM Io Hot Spots

Caption

SwRI is leading a study to understand how Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system, contributes to Jupiter’s plasmasphere. Juno’s JIRAM instrument images Io’s hot spots, data that will be complemented by Hubble and Webb telescope datasets.

Credit

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

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License

Public Domain

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