NASA recorded the most powerful volcano eruption in history on the satellite of Jupiter Io. New images obtained by the Juno spacecraft allow you to understand the nature of the satellite.

According to Science Alert, this is the most volcanically active planet of the solar system, on which there are more than 400 existing volcanoes. Juno took several flights of IO, and took several pictures showing a huge hot point near the South Pole of the satellite. According to NASA, an eruption at a hot point is six times greater than the power than all power plants, and its radiation exceeds 80 trillion WT.

NASA spacecraft was aimed at Jupiter to study a giant planet. However, when the main mission ended, they continued to observe the satellites of the planet. During his last span, the orbital apparatus made an image of a volcanic hot point at the South Pole of the satellite more than Lake Upper. The image was obtained from the Jiram (Jovian Infrand Auroral Mapper) Juno.

According to scientists, the data of the last span of Juno around the satellite surpassed their expectations.

“This is the most powerful volcanic event ever registered on the volcanic world in our solar system,” explains the chief researcher of Mission Scott Bolton from the South-Western Scientific Research Institute in San Antonio.

During his long mission, Juno flies past IO in every second orbit, which means that pictures can track any changes on the surface.

" However, we found that in fact these are several closely located hot spots that were radiated simultaneously. This testifies to the large subservient system of the magmas of the cells, ”said Alessandro Mura, Juno co-investigator, from the National Institute of Astrophysics in Rome and added that their data confirms that this is the most powerful eruption of the volcano, which has ever been registered on this satellite.