It has been more than 20 years since a mission flew so closely by Io, and the spacecraft’s camera, called JunoCam, captured high-resolution ... degrees, the surface of the moon is likely minus ...

Io, Jupiter's third-largest moon, is covered in lakes ... and the whole of its surface is dotted with them. "The high spatial resolution of JIRAM's infrared images, combined with the favorable ...

High-resolution images now reveal ... sheds light on how magma moves beneath the surface of Io. Io’s volcanism — probably present over the moon’s entire 4.6-billion-year existence ...

Explore Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Io — Jupiter's fifth ...

Juno was just 932 miles (1,500 kilometers) above Io when it captured these images, which are the highest-resolution ... its surface, as determined by new observations of the moon's gravity.

There are new, high-quality images ... another close flyby of Io for Feb. 3, when Juno is again expected to pass at about the same distance from the moon's surface as it did Saturday.

The volcanic world Io has been a hot ... mission swooped close to the moon and snagged close-up views of some of its volcanic activity. However, the newest, high-resolution images of the jovian ...

A recent Earth-moon flyby slowed JUICE enough to divert it toward Venus, where it will receive an important gravitational slingshot in 2025. The high ... moon's icy surface at a resolution of ...

Io is the most volcanic ... patch emerging on the moon's surface. The most recent image (right) was taken at the greatest distance and, therefore, has the lowest resolution.

On March 9, 1979, Linda Morabito discovered a volcanic plume on Io, a moon of Jupiter ... lava flows) at high resolution, which would surely be some of the most stunning space images ever captured.

Recently, the spacecraft has been making close flybys of the Jovian moon Io, which is ... from the surface and is between 3 and 4.3 miles (5 and 7 kilometers) high. The animation shows one side ...