Juno captures images of hellish moon Io

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has completed its first ultra-close flyby of the hellish moon Io. The spacecraft has been orbiting our solar system’s gas giant, Jupiter, for several years now, completing multiple flybys of the moons and objects found within the Jovian system. This is the first time Juno has flown so close to Io, though it has captured images of Io in the past.

This particular flyby brought the iconic spacecraft within 920 miles of Io’s surface. The dense moon is the fourth largest satellite within the solar system, and unlike most of Jupiter and Saturn’s moons, Io…