PIA26521: NASA's Juno Captures Thermal Emissions at Zal Montes
Glowing thermal emission from active lava breakouts are observed by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2023, in the Zal Montes-Patera complex on Io.
 Target Name:  Io
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Juno 
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Instrument:  Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) 
 Product Size:  1960 x 1814 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  SwRI 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA26521.tif (4.261 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA26521.jpg (176.5 kB)  

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Red circles and arrows point to glowing thermal emission from active lava breakouts observed by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2023, in the Zal Montes-Patera complex on Io.

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

Image Credit:
NASA/Caltech-JPL/SwRI

Image Addition Date:
2024-12-12