May 30, 2024
University of California, Berkeley professor emerita Imke de Pater was part of a team that interpreted new images of Jupiter’s moon Io taken by the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Mount Graham in Arizona.
The Jovian moon Io captured on Jan. 10, 2024, by the SHARK-VIS camera on the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona. This is the highest resolution image of Io ever obtained by an Earth-based telescope. The image combines three spectral bands — infrared, red and green — to highlight the reddish ring around the volcano Pele (below and to the right of the moon's center) and the white ring around Pillan Patera, to the right of Pele.
INAF/Large Binocular Telescope Observatory/Georgia State University; IRV-band observations by SHARK-VIS@LBT [P.I. F. Pedichini]; processing by D. Hope, S. Jefferies, G. Li Causi