Io, Jupiter's third-largest moon, is covered in lakes made of lava, according to a new paper in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment. This discovery was made thanks to Juno's ...

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Io, which is Jupiter's third-largest moon, features large mountains and a glass-like lake of lava with an island in the middle. The data used to make these animations were gathered by NASA's Juno ...

Scientists have been observing this lava lake for decades ... Io's surface is smoother than the surfaces of Jupiter's three other Galilean moons (Europa, Ganymede and Callisto).

The Juno mission, which has been orbiting and observing Jupiter and its moons since July 2016 ... wondered how the volcanoes were fed from the lava underneath the surface,” Bolton said.

The Jovian moon Io is covered in "fire-breathing" lava lakes. Using its Jovian Infrared ... Space Agency originally used to peer beneath Jupiter's thick clouds, Juno has captured infrared images ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing ...

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The volcanic moon, which orbits the gas giant Jupiter, has long been written off as a possible home for alien life, as its extreme temperature and lava-covered surface make it wholly inhabitable.

A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.