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NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath Io’s Surface

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July 22, 2026 74 views
Original source: NASA

Description This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, indicating heat rising from just beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. While infrared instruments measure the temperature of the moon’s surface, the lowest frequency microwave channels ...