Change can be scary.
The images were first presented at the Europlanet Science Congress in Berlin earlier this week.
They were taken by Junos Junocam, which captures images using light in the spectrum visible to human eyes.
In an image taken by Galileo in 1997, the region was barren. Now, as seen by Juno, it’s very much not barren.© NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Juno keeps capturing images that make Io seem like a fascinating, albeit hellish, place.
That can allow us to learn more about how such planetary features likemountainscome about.
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