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PIA22601: Location of Io's New Hotspot
This annotated image highlights the location of the new heat source close to the south pole of Io. The image was generated from data collected on Dec. 16, 2017, by the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA's Juno NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 16, 2017.
 Target Name:  Io
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Juno 
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  JIRAM 
 Product Size:  2400 x 1800 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  SwRI 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA22601.tif (4.031 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA22601.jpg (210.6 kB)  

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This annotated image highlights the location of the new heat source close to the south pole of Io. The image was generated from data collected on Dec. 16, 2017, by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission when the spacecraft was about 290,000 miles (470,000 kilometers) from the Jovian moon. The scale to the right of image depicts of the range of temperatures displayed in the infrared image. Higher recorded temperatures are characterized in brighter colors -- lower temperatures in darker colors.

More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM

Image Addition Date:
2018-07-13