Nasa’s ShadowCam captures South pole region of Moon<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nJuno embarked on a 5-year journey to our solar system’s largest planet \u2013 the gas giant Jupiter. Its mission is to probe beneath the planet’s dense clouds and answer questions about the origin and evolution of Jupiter, our solar system, and giant planets in general across the cosmos.<\/p>\n
Tasked to look into the solar giant\u2019s interior, Juno has also gathered information about three of four Galilean moons \u2014 fiery Io and icy Europa and Ganymede, and Callisto.<\/p>\n
Moon Io, which is a bit larger than Earth\u2019s natural satellite, goes under constant squeeze and stretch by the gravitational pull of Jupiter and the other Galilean moons.<\/p>\n
Nasa’s Jupiter mission will also gather new information about the planet’s ring system where the moons are located.<\/p>\n
Juno\u2019s principal investigator Scott Bolton elucidated: “Io is the most volcanic celestial body we know of in our solar system.”<\/p>\n
“By observing it over time on multiple passes, we can watch how the volcanoes vary \u2014 how often they erupt, how bright and hot they are, whether they are linked to a group or are solo and if the shape of the lava flow changes.”<\/p>\n
In addition to its visible light imager JunoCam, the spacecraft\u2019s JIRAM [Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper], SRU [Stellar Reference Unit] and MWR[ [Microwave Radiometer] will be studying the factors causing volcanoes in Io and how they interact with the solar system giant\u2019s powerful magnetosphere and auroras.<\/p>\n
“We are entering into another amazing part of Juno\u2019s mission as we get closer and closer to Io with successive orbits. This 51st orbit will provide our closest look yet at this tortured moon,” he noted.<\/p>\n
“Our upcoming flybys in July and October will bring us even closer, leading up to our twin flyby encounters with Io in December of this year and February of next year when we fly within 1,500 kilometres of its surface.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nasa’s Juno spacecraft makes closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon lo. Nasa’s Juno spacecraft, currently orbiting Jupiter, is in the process of taking a closer look at the gas giant’s volcanic moon Io, making its nearest flyby of the Jovian satellite to date at an altitude of nearly 22,060 miles, Nasa said on Tuesday. NASA\u2019s Juno […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[6151],"class_list":["post-16192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","category-world","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}