A fascinating discovery: NASA captures a possible lunar volcano of Jupiter

NASA's Juno spacecraft found a new source of heat near the south pole of Io that could point to a volcano then unknown in the small moon of Jupiter.

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With the help of an advanced instrument called Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), spatial evidence was found

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"The new Io access point that JIRAM has collected is about 200 miles (300 kilometers) from the nearest previously mapped access point, "said Alessandro Mura, Juno co-investigator of the National Institute of Astrophysics. Rome.

"We do not exclude the movement or modification of a hot spot previously discovered, but it is hard to imagine that we could walk that distance and still be considered as the same. "

Experts explained in a statement that infrared data was obtained on December 16, 2017, when Juno was about 470,000 kilometers from the moon.

Juno has logged nearly 235 million kilometers since it entered Jupiter's orbit on July 4, 2016. The scientific map for June 13 will be July 16.