NASA Juno mission captured amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. The spacecraft flew about 219 miles (352 kilometers) over the surface of the moon. Credit: Space.com | imagery credit: Credit : ...

but Europa, where another orbiter, the Clipper, is bound. During the flyby, the JIRAM instrument detected a massive hot spot on Io's southern hemisphere "so strong that it saturated our detector,” ...

Since completing its primary science objectives in orbit of Jupiter, Juno has been conducting flybys of the Jovian moons Io, Europa ... "And while each flyby provided data on the tormented ...

In particular, the large volcanic hotspot was observed when Juno made its latest Io flyby on Dec 27, 2024, coming to within 46,200 miles (74,400 kilometers) of Io's surface and targeting the moon ...

For nine years, a spacecraft known as the Juno orbiter has divided ... including not just Io, but Europa, where another orbiter, the Clipper, is bound. During the flyby, the JIRAM instrument ...