The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter’s moon Io – the first-ever picture of the moon’s south polar area – throughout Juno’s sixtieth flyby of Jupiter on Apr. 9, 2024.
Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos made this picture by making use of additional processing to a picture created from uncooked JunoCam information by one other citizen scientist, Gerald Eichstädt.
On the time the uncooked picture was taken, Juno was about 10,250 miles (16,500 kilometers) above the floor of Io.
JunoCam’s uncooked photos can be found for the general public to peruse and course of into picture merchandise at https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing. Extra details about NASA citizen science could be discovered at https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience and https://www.nasa.gov/remedy/alternatives/citizenscience.
Extra details about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu. For extra about this discovering and different science outcomes, see https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/science-findings.
