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NASA's Juno spacecraft has found a new source of heat near the south pole of Io that could point to a volcano then unknown on Jupiter's little moon.
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With the help of an advanced instrument called Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), the l 39; spatial evidence was found
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The Io access point that JIRAM collected is about 300 kilometers from the nearest access point previously mapped, "said Alessandro Mura, a Juno co-investigator of the National Institute of Astrophysics in Rome.
"We do not exclude the movement or modification of a hot spot previously discovered, but it is hard to imagine that one could walk that distance and still be considered as the same thing. "
Experts said 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 its entered into the orbit of Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The scientific map of June 13 will be July 16.
