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NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date
January 28, 2025
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 -- NASA issued the following news release:

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NASA Juno Mission Spots Most Powerful Volcanic Activity on Io to Date

A massive hotspot -- larger the Earth's Lake Superior -- can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA's Juno on Dec. 27, 2024, during the spacecraft's flyby of the Jovian moon.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM . . .

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