JAKARTA – The Juno spacecraft provides a clearer view of Jupiter’s moon Io. Scientists now know how large the lava lake is on Io and the volcanic processes on the moon. This new knowledge was successfully discovered by Juno’s Jovian Infrfied Aurora Mapper (JIRAM) instrument. The results were studied and reported in the form of a paper published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment. Juno passed through Io twice last year, namely in May and October. The observation distance is different. Juno was at an altitude of 35,000 kilometers in the first month, while in the second month Juno was at an altitude of 13,000 kilometers. From this distance, JIRAM managed to find the existence of a luminous ring that surrounds the base of a number of hot spots. JIRAM’s infrared image resolution shows that the
In addition to showing the presence of a lava lake inside the caldera, JIRAM infrared also found a thin circle of lava that bounds the central bridge and lake walls. The lava kerac should be erupted because it hits the lake wall by force. “(This lava kerac) forms a typical lava alliance visible in the Taiwanese lava lake. The walls are probably as high as hundreds of meters, which explains why magma generally does not appear to come out of bowl-shaped paterae-figuur formed by volcanism,” Mura said. According to the results of these results, the hypothesis regarding the surface of O is still the same. “Magma flooded into the middle of the lake, spread and formed and formed hollow flows along the lake, rising lava. »
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