During the December 30 flyby, NASA says, Juno passed so close to Io that the moon altered the spacecraft's trajectory around Jupiter. This planned maneuver was meant to reduce the probe's orbital ...

NASA orbiter spots most active volcano yet on Io Images of Io captured in 2024 by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno show significant and visible surface changes (indicated by the arrows) near the ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has made several close swoops by Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, and it's beamed back stunning views of this distant volcanic land. The recent flybys in late 2023 and early 2024 ...

NASA has used a tool that was never meant to be used to study other cosmic bodies, but the space agency used it to see the ...

Instead, each of Io's 400 or so volcanoes may harbor their own chamber of magma. And NASA intends to further investigate this new site of prodigious volcanism. Juno will again fly by Io on March 3.

NASA's image was taken by the Juno spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) imager. It shows several of Io's volcanoes as bright lights, some erupting lava fountains miles high.

Mount Boösaule is Io's longest and tallest mountain - and dwarfs every mountain range on Earth. It is 350 miles (570 km) long, and an incredible 17,500 metres (57,400 ft) tall.

NASA has revealed that one of the cameras on the Juno craft it sent to Jupiter malfunctioned, and that it fixed it with some ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As NASA begins taking the first step to return humanity to the moon, MeetMo.io is inviting the public to ride along, thanks to its innovative video ...

Images of Io captured in 2024 by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno show significant and visible surface changes (indicated by the arrows) near the Jovian moon’s south pole.