The two most powerful space telescopes ever built, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Hubble Space Telescope, are about to gather data about the most volcanically body in the entire solar system, Jupiter’s first Galilean Moon, Io. This data will be used in combination with upcoming flybys of Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which … Continue reading 'Exploring Io’s Volcanic Activity via Hubble and Webb Telescopes'
For this campaign, Dr. Retherford and his team will be using 122 orbits of Hubble around the Earth to gather data on Io for a total time of 183 observing hours, or just over 4.25 complete orbits of Io around Jupiter, with each orbit taking approximately 42.5 hours. Additionally, JWST will gather data on Io over the course of 4.8 hours, or just over 10 percent of one complete orbit of Io around Jupiter.
Concept image of the various features within Jupiter’s surrounding environment that this new science campaign will examine, including its massive magnetic field, along with Io’s neutral clouds and plasma torus. “Most of these materials don’t actually escape straight out of the volcanoes but rather are associated with the sublimation of sulfur dioxide frost from Io’s dayside surface,” said Dr. Katherine de Kleer, who is an assistant professor of planetary science and astronomy at Caltech, an expert in JWST data analysis, and one of several co-investigators on this campaign.
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