Newscenter Media News The Juno spacecraft belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an independent agency of the United States government has spotted hot lava on a distant planet.
Beautiful photos of this far-off volcanic region have been sent back by the Juno mission, which made multiple close passes by Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io.
NASA has just made public new photos of this volcano planet that were taken by the Stellar Reference Unit, a very sensitive camera on Juno that shows hot lava and new lava flows.
“During the #JunoMission’s close flybys of Io, its instruments detected recent changes on the surface and even the glow of active lava,” the space agency posted online.
The photo, taken on December 30, 2023, showed active lava eruptions on the surface of the Zal Montes-Patera complex, a volcanic zone consisting of two mountains enclosing a black “patera,” composed of newly formed lava flows.
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