Juno's joyride around Jupiter snaps stellar shots of Io

New images of Jupiter's moon, Io, were this week released by NASA following the flyby of the Juno spacecraft on December 30. The images were snapped by the JunoCam imager and have since been subject to processing by the JunoCam community to enhance details and mitigate wear and tear of the instrument operating in the harsh …

[Paul Herber]

Eye-oh, Eye-oh, it's off to work we go ...

[The Oncoming Scorn]

Post Christmas it's IO, IO Its back to work I go....

Icon cause I wanna go home.....

[Grogan]

i/o, i/o, it's all we fuckin know :-)

[HuBo]

Wonderful 5* service

So glad Juno-Eats could deliver this mouth-watering pizza right to our airlock!

[Anonymous Coward]

A young moon

It still has zits.

[Lazlo Woodbine]

It's amazing that photos can come back from IO 400 million miles away quicker than they used to come back from Supasnaps...

[Roger Kynaston]

please no imperial

71,450 miles (115,000 kilometres)

should be

115 000 km (71 450 miles)

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[Joe Gurman]

Re: please no imperial

Ain’t im-perial, podner, them’s red-white-and-blue Amurrican units (just look at the size of our pint, I mean, really). Absolutely appropriate for an Amurrican-built camera on an Amurrican-built spacecraft. Too bad our Felon-in-Chief wants to get out of the bidness. But wait, the appropriations committees in both houses of the US Congress (the Senate and the National Institution for the Criminally Insane) have voted to restore all cuts to NASA science. Tune in around September 30 to see how that plays out.