Astrophotographer releases new detailed images of Jupiter's moon Io

Professional astrophotographer Jason Perry published detailed photos of Jupiter's moon Io, obtained thanks to new data from the Juno probe.

All of these images were taken during a flyby of the Juno satellite on March 1, so surface changes are minimal. The photos were taken from a distance of 51.5 to 65 thousand kilometers.

He also showed two edited photos. For the first, he used two images from JunoCAM to make one RGB image with maximum detail.

How many sources in the second photo is not specified. But the author writes that the length of each pixel of this image corresponds to 34 kilometers. Can you imagine the scale?

In the comments to the second photo, they noticed two red dots on the original image from JunoCAM, which turned black on the processed photo. According to the photographer, this is just an image defect due to the red filter, which had to be eliminated during processing.

The next flyby of Io is expected on May 16 from a distance of about 35,000 kilometers, which will provide more detailed images.