Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

“By combining data from this flyby with our previous observations, the Juno science team is studying how Io’s volcanoes vary. We are looking for how often they erupt, how bright and hot they are, how the shape of the lava flow changes, and how Io’s activity is connected to the flow of charged particles in Jupiter’s magnetosphere.”

Source: Juno’s principal investigator, Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, explaining some of the research being conducted as Juno makes the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles from the surface of the most volcanic world in our solar system, the pass is expected to allow Juno instruments to generate a firehose of data.

FMI: www.nasa.gov/juno