Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io

Data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft using its Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument point to a new heat source close to the south pole of Io that could indicate a previously undiscovered volcano on the small moon of Jupiter. The infrared data were collected on Dec. 16, 2017, when Juno was about 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers) away from the moon.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2018-166&rn=news.xml&rst=7189

 

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