NASA’s spacecraft spots hot lava on Jupiter’s volcanic moon

The Juno spacecraft belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an independent agency of the United States government has spotted hot lava on a distant planet.

Beautiful photos of this far-off volcanic region have been sent back by the Juno mission, which made multiple close passes by Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io.

NASA has just made public new photos of this volcano planet that were taken by the Stellar Reference Unit, a very sensitive camera on Juno that shows hot lava and new lava flows.