Spacecraft detects a new volcano on the Jupiter satellite | Express

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Data [image]which collected the Juno aircraft with the help of the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper, points to a new source of heat near the south pole of the Io satellite

This may indicate an earlier invisible volcano on a small satellite of Jupiter, reported on the official website of NASA. were collected on December 16, 2017, when Juno was at a distance of about 470,000 km from uputnyka. 300 kilometers from the previously detected

"A new hot spot, taken JIRAM, Io. We do not rule out the movement or modification of the hotspot previously discovered, but it's hard to imagine that she could overcome that distance and remain unchanged, "says Alessandro Moore, a researcher at the University of Ottawa. Juno team of the National Institute of Astrophysics of Rome. the data collected during the December 16th flight, as well as the JIRAM data that will be collected during the next flights to IO Previous NASA missions that visited the Jupiter system as well as the ground observations found on 150 active volcanoes. It is hoped to detect about 250.

Juno's probe reaches Jupiter in July 2016. Originally, it was assumed that Juno would have a short life span since the device had to enter orbit of Jupiter every 14 days. in the feeding system, the probe is blocked, performing maneuvers of 53 days instead of 14 days