Probably NASA’s funniest named space mission Junocontinues to explore Jupiter’s moons. The Juno spacecraft, which has been exploring Io, one of the gas giant’s most interesting moons, has discovered lava lakes on the satellite. These lakes offer hope that life could spread to these moons.

Juno’s JIRAM The infrared mapping instrument, called , was used on the original mission to find structures beneath Jupiter’s thick clouds. When they pointed this vehicle at Io, scientists found some very interesting results. Io’s surface looks like something out of the Halo series, with fire-breathing lava lakes.

It has a temperature of hundreds of degrees

Although Io’s surface is cold, the heat ring around the satellite ranges from 232 degrees to 732 degrees. The vehicle that investigated this feature revealed lava structures. The rest of the satellite is quite cold: minus 43 degrees.

From researchers Alessandro Murastated that this study gave them the opportunity to understand how volcanic activity occurs on Io and to see magma movement. Mura, lava layers collide with the edges of the lakes and in Hawaii It forms lava rings that look like the rings we see. There are two different hypotheses on this subject: either the lava goes through the bottom of the lakes and hits the shores of the lake, creating hundreds of meters of lava walls, or the lava collects in the middle of the lake and causes shipwrecks on the edges.

Thanks to this lava, Io’s surface have a heatable and active coreIt also allows the atmosphere to be preserved and water to be created when it is created, giving hope for future colony studies.

Jupiter’s moons are named after Jupiter’s lovers in Roman mythology. Juno is the name of Jupiter’s wife. That’s why NASA sent Jupiter’s wife to investigate Jupiter and its “friends”.