Daily Telescope: A stunning new image of Io reveals a volcanic plume

Enlarge / Behold: Io (credit: Björn Jónsson)

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Good morning. It’s February 6, and today’s image reveals the Jovian moon Io in a revelatory new light.

Over the weekend the operators of NASA’s Juno spacecraft released a new batch of images showcasing a February 3 flyby of Io, the volcanically active moon orbiting Jupiter. Io, if you didn’t know, is the most volcanically active world known to humans.

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Author: Eric Berger. [Source Link (*), Ars Technica – All content]

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