We may have found a crater on Jupiter’s moon Io for the first time

An novice astronomer might have discovered the primary crater ever noticed on Jupiter’s moon Io. Io is so volcanically lively that eruptions are likely to wipe away any affect craters, so we’ve by no means seen one till now.

Jesper Sandberg, an novice astronomer in Sweden, noticed this obvious crater whereas combing by archival pictures from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. It’s comparatively small, nearly 100 metres throughout, and positioned on a broad, flat…