NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in the US and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Texas will launch a major project to use Hubble and James Webb’s orbiting telescopes to study volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io. In this respect reported Press service of SwRI.
Observation data from the telescopes will complement NASA’s Juno spacecraft’s approaching flights to Jupiter and allow us to assess the impact of volcanic activity on Io on the plasma environment around the largest planet in the solar system.
Using the probe and orbital observation systems, scientists want to better understand how eruption from Io’s surfaces interacts with the gas giant’s atmosphere and other moons of Jupiter, causing intense aurora. Juno will come as close to Io as possible on December 30, 2023, and February 1, 2024, during its orbital movement.
The project’s principal investigator, SwRI’s Dr. According to Curt Rutherford, the simultaneous use of space telescopes and the Juno spacecraft will provide an opportunity to comprehensively study Jupiter’s moons for the first time since the Galileo mission from 1995 to 2003. The next chance won’t come until the early 2030s.
Earlier astronomers established The duration of mega storms on Jupiter’s neighbor Saturn. It turns out that for hundreds of years, the most powerful storms have intensified in the atmosphere of the gas giant.