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Juno has recorded nearly 235 million kilometers since it entered Jupiter's orbit on July 4, 2016. (File)
Using data collected by the Juno spacecraft from the NASA, scientists have clues an undiscovered volcano on the moon of Jupiter Io.
With his JIRM instrument (Jiran InfraRed Auroral Mapper), the Juno spacecraft has found a new source of heat near the south pole of Io, NASA announced Saturday. The new Io hotspot that JIRAM has picked up is about 300 kilometers from the hotspot previously mapped the closest, "said in a statement Alessandro Mura, a Juno co-investigator from the National Institute of Astrophysics of Rome, Italy
The movement or modification of a hot spot previously discovered, but it is difficult to imagine that one could travel such a distance and be always considered the same thing, "adds Mura.
Infrared data was collected on December 16, 2017 Juno was about 470,000 kilometers AW
The Juno team will continue to evaluate the data collected on the December 16 flyby, as well as the JIRAM data that will be collected during the next Io flyovers (and even closer together), said NASA
. NASA's exploration missions that visited the Jovian system (Voyagers 1 and 2, Galileo, Cbadini, and New Horizons), as well as ground observations, located more than 150 active volcanoes on Io up to the end of the day. now.
About 250 million kilometers are waiting to be discovered.
Juno has recorded nearly 235 million kilometers since it entered Jupiter's orbit on July 4, 2016.
Juno's 13th Science Map will be July 16
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