As Io is squeezed and stretched by Jupiter's gravity, its solid rocky surface has been turned into the most volcanically active place in our solar system. According to NASA, hundreds of active ...

Lava lakes on Io's surface had previously been found in a few locations, such as the 127-mile-long lake Loki Patera. This study reveals that these lakes are extremely common on the moon, and the ...

Io is the most geologically active moon in the solar system, possessing hundreds of active volcanoes. So, the existence of lava flows on the surface is not a shock.

NASA's Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter's cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its fiery moon, Io. Not only has the data helped develop a new model to ...

Assuming Io initially held some 20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (or 20 sextillion) tons of sulfur, the amount it’s lost so far leaves roughly 200 quintillion to 1.2 sextillion tons of sulfur ...

Io’s volcanoes are the only known active magma volcanoes in the solar system other than those on Earth. Io produces about 100 times more lava each year than all the volcanoes on Earth. While Earth’s ...