Juno Flyby

[Graeme1858]

Juno to fly by Io today!

NASA’s Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the surface of the most volcanic world in our solar system, the pass is expected to allow Juno instruments to generate a firehose of data.

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/n ... ic-moon-io

[Juno16]

Super cool stuff Graeme!

Proud to be its namesake!

[helicon]

That's neat.

A hope a lot of new data was gleaned from the pizza moon.

[Unitron48]

Sweet!

Dave

[SparWeb]

Still eagerly awaiting photos from the flyby...

[KingClinton]

A few images are starting to trickle through.

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/

[Graeme1858]

Juno's final image from the flyby of Io with the plume enhanced for visibility. This is current volcanism on another world. We may have known about Io's volcanoes for over 40 years, but it never gets old.