Perhaps, though, a future generation will be the first to discover life teeming just beneath the scorched surface of the distant Pizza Moon. Featured image: “Full Disk Views of Io” by NASA.
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.
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New observations of the most volcanic world in our solar system solve a mystery that began with Voyager 1But the moon’s wild volcanic activity wasn’t detected until Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter and its moons in 1979, revealing Io’s dynamic surface that resembled a pepperoni pizza, Bolton said.
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