"Io represented a big mystery because its surface doesn't hold a record of its history the way that the surfaces of less active moons do." The solar system's most volcanic body, the Jupiter moon ...
As Jupiter’s innermost large moon, it is subject to an intense gravitational tug-of-war between is massive parent planet and nearby large moons Europa and Ganymede, both of which are locked in ...
These moons are worlds unto themselves. Some, like Europa or Enceladus, have spectacular and perhaps even habitable liquid water oceans. And then there’s Jupiter’s moon, Io. Io is the most ...
"Io is simply littered with volcanoes, and we caught a few of them in action." The four biggest moons of Jupiter aren't just blurry smudges in Galileo's telescope anymore. The Italian astronomer ...
Just before its latest perijove on April 9, JunoCam was switched on early to take images of two of Jupiter’s moons, Io and Europa. Io is the most volcanic world in the solar system, with ...
Jupiter’s moon Io has possibly been erupting for a very, very, very long time. Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system, with some of its volcanoes shooting magma higher than ...
Gif: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Two recent flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed a couple of stunning surprises: a remarkably steep mountain and islands in the middle ...
Jupiter’s moon Io has been continuously remodelled by volcanic eruptions for billions of years, possibly since it first formed. Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system ...
New research finds that Io, the solar system’s most volcanically active moon, can brag just that. A recent study of Io’s sulfurous atmosphere suggests that Jupiter’s moon has been a volcanic ...
The solar system's most volcanic body, the moon of Jupiter Io, has been in turmoil for at least 4.57 billion years, right back to its birth and the infancy of the sun. Those are the findings of a ...