We might have discovered a crater on Jupiter’s moon Io for the primary time

An newbie astronomer might have discovered the primary crater ever noticed on Jupiter’s moon Io. Io is so volcanically lively that eruptions are inclined to wipe away any influence craters, so we’ve by no means seen one till now.

Jesper Sandberg, an newbie astronomer in Sweden, noticed this obvious crater whereas combing via archival photographs from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. It’s comparatively small, nearly 100 metres throughout, and positioned on a broad, flat…