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Juno Spots ‘Hot Rings’ on Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io


These bright (hot) ‘thermal rings’ are a common phenomenon, and they are indicative of active lava lakes, according to a new analysis of data from the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument on NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

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