On March 9, 1979, Linda Morabito discovered a volcanic plume on Io, a moon of Jupiter, in one of the photos from Voyager 1. She wrote, “I could feel tears begin to roll down my face at the sight ...

On March 9, 1979, Linda Morabito discovered a volcanic plume on Io, a moon of Jupiter, in one of the photos from Voyager 1. She wrote, “I could feel tears begin to roll down my face at the sight ...

Behold the volcano-blanketed moon, Io. After swooping by Jupiter's tortured moon on Feb. 3, NASA's Juno spacecraft beamed back some of the closest-ever images of this unique world. The agency's ...

Heat from many of Io’s active volcanoes plays a part in redistributing the snow-like volatiles, ... A bluish haze appears at edges of lava spreading from Io’s Prometheus volcano.

Huge volcanoes on Io. ... Juno observed a hazy plume over the volcano Prometheus. NASA's Galileo mission also captured a plume above these fields of lava in the year 2000. Related Stories.

Studying these features can help scientists figure out what drives Io’s volcanoes, ... A JunoCam capture of Io from Oct. 15, showed a plume of material ejected from the (unseen) volcano Prometheus.

The Io–Jupiter system is similar, in scale, to an exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf, and if volcanic Io doesn't have a magma ocean then perhaps exoplanets on close orbits around M-dwarfs don't either.

There are hundreds of active volcanoes on Io. The new one is located just south of Io’s equator and the Juno images show fresh lava flows and volcanic deposits covering an area of 32,400 square ...

Io is the most volcanic body known to science, and researchers have puzzled over its history for years. A new report suggests it was born this way. This image revealing the north polar region of ...

Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system.

The NASA spacecraft Juno captured the images during a flyby on Saturday. Scientists are hoping to learn more about Io, the most volcanic world in the solar system.