PIA26340: JunoCam Captures Io Spouting Off
 Target Name:  Io
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Juno
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  JunoCam
 Product Size:  627 x 351 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  Malin Space Science Systems
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA26340.tif (473.7 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA26340.jpg (13.09 kB)

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The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft captured two volcanic plumes rising above the horizon of Jupiter's moon Io on Feb. 3, 2024. Mission scientists think the plumes were emitted either by two vents from one giant volcano, or two volcanoes near each other.

The JunoCam instrument imaged the plumes from a distance of about 2,400 miles (3,800 kilometers).

Citizen scientist Andrea Luck made this image from raw JunoCam data.

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 Andrea Luck (CC BY)

Image Addition Date:
2024-06-26