Some of the detailed images taken by Juno and its visible light imager JunoCam show the Io's red-hued surface scarred by its fiery volcanoes. An infrared view of the moon captured earlier during a ...

There are new, high-quality images of Jupiter's moon, Io ... 930 miles from the surface of Io, the agency said. The photos of a silhouetted, dusty red sphere pockmarked by massive grayish ...

This sulfurous deposit is a common feature of Io's volcanic activity, giving certain regions of the moon their distinctive red-orange hue. On the western side of the new volcano, two dark streams ...

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 ...

Thanks to the Juno probe mission, a mystery about Jupiter's moon Io that lasted over 40 years has ... and its characteristic yellow, orange, and red colors result from being covered in sulfur.

No moon in our solar system is likely as chaotic as Io, Jupiter’s third largest. The rocky body looks like a pepperoni pizza because of the constant, numerous eruptions on its surface.

We knew data from Juno’s two very close flybys could give us some insights on how this tortured moon actually worked.” Io orbits around Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system ...

In 1979, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientist Linda Morabito discovered volcanic activity on Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io. But Io isn’t just volcanically active—it is the most ...

Scott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, ...