The Juno spacecraft has continued to reveal interesting facts about Jupiter and its moon system since its launch on July 4, 2016. Juno is now the first robotic mission to explore Jupiter up close since the Galileo spacecraft, which explored the gas giant and its moons between 1995 and 2003....
On December 30, NASA’s Juno probe flew just 1,500 kilometers above the surface of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons, and provided images of the moon, which is undergoing active and turbulent processes. The images taken by Juno are the most detailed in the last 22 years. Io is the most...