Thanks to the Juno probe mission, a mystery about Jupiter's moon Io that lasted over 40 years has been solved. It is now known why Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System.
NASA's Juno spacecraft was dispatched on a mission in 2011 to study the planet Jupiter. It has beamed back some truly stunning images and valuable data on the solar system's largest planet.
Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...
Juno previously captured images of the hellish moon back in 2022, with more images following when the probe came within 920 miles of Io’s surface at the end of 2023. Now, the images of these ...
NASA eyes a return to Saturn with a new probe, aiming to uncover gas giant mysteries. Missions to Enceladus, Io, and the Moon ...