JunoCam Image (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

JunoCam Image

Caption

JunoCam acquired three images of Io prior to when it entered eclipse, all showing a volcanic plume illuminated beyond the terminator. The image shown here, reconstructed from red, blue and green filter images, was acquired at 12:20 (UTC) on Dec. 21, 2018. The Juno spacecraft was approximately 300,000 km from Io.

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NASA/SwRI/MSSS

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