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A great chance view from the Juno explorer shows us another first.
All credit to NASA.
Link to article on their site: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/juno/nasas-juno-gives-aerial-views-of-mountain-lava-lake-on-io/
mmmerf1
The moons of Jupiter are named after the Roman God's mistresses in various legends. So we sent Juno, Jupiter's WIFE, to go take a look...
ShineyBaconLitter
Once we can mine exotic metals and elements from outerspace our technology should improve dramatically
SnakesInBowties
"Scientists are assuming that the islands are made out of some sort of nougat."
SteveD31415
That's Loki Patera, well known but nice detail on the islands.
iDrawStuff
Just a quick note that the image is not a photo - it's an illustrations showing what the lake *may* look like.
Bystandr
Yes, they constructed an animation using the data from the explorer. I would assume there will eventually be photos to look at on their site