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PIA25697: NASA's Juno Mission Captures View of Io's South Polar Region
The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's moon Io during Juno's 60th flyby of Jupiter on Apr. 9, 2024.
 Target Name:  Io
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Juno 
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  JunoCam 
 Product Size:  2296 x 2296 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA25697.tif (9.985 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA25697.jpg (303 kB)  

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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's moon Io – the first-ever image of the moon's south polar region – during Juno's 60th flyby of Jupiter on Apr. 9, 2024.

Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos made this image by applying further processing to an image created from raw JunoCam data by another citizen scientist, Gerald Eichstädt.

At the time the raw image was taken, Juno was about 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometers) above the surface of Io.

JunoCam's raw images are available for the public to peruse and process into image products at https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing. More information about NASA citizen science can be found at https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience and https://www.nasa.gov/solve/opportunities/citizenscience.

More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu. For more about this finding and other science results, see https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings.

Image Credit:
Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Image processing by Gerald Eichstädt/Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY

Image Addition Date:
2024-04-17