This Juno picture from February (proper) reveals a brand new volcano that wasn’t there in a Galileo picture from 1997 (left)
Galileo/JunoCam/NASA
A recent volcano with lava flows spanning a whole lot of kilometres has appeared on Jupiter’s moon Io. It has shaped within the 27 years between flybys of two spacecraft.
Astronomers first took detailed pictures of Io, essentially the most volcanically lively physique within the photo voltaic system, with NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which was finding out Jupiter and its moons between 1995 and 2003.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting…
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