Due to concerns about engine, Juno to remain in elongated Jupiter orbit

NASA’s Juno mission has observed mineral salts and organic compounds on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Data for this discovery was collected by the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) spectrometer aboard the spacecraft during a close flyby of the icy moon. The findings, which could help scientists better understand the origin of Ganymede and the composition of its deep ocean, were published on Oct. 30 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
 
Those images of Io are truly spectacular Flyaway. I would think that the Voyager 1 images will be out of date by now since the length of time since the Voyager 1 flyby back in the 1980s, to think that it is over forty years since the flyby of Jupiter, how time flies.
 
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Sophia Gad-Nasr

@Astropartigirl
Friends: the latest photo of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in our solar system! It is the closest moon to Jupiter and is one of four Galilean moons (these are the four moons you'll typically see in telescopes). Its surface is speckled with lava lakes and…

... And I move that Io be renamed Ferret Face.
 

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