“Io is simply littered with volcanoes ... s data into animations that bring some of the hellish world’s surface features, such as Loki Patera and Steeple Mountain, into dramatic focus.

Io isn’t just any moon; it’s a volcanic powerhouse orbiting Jupiter! Explore its stunning features, from raging volcanoes to dazzling auroras, and learn what makes it so different from ...

revealed that the whole surface of Io is covered by lava lakes contained in caldera-like features," Alessandro Mura, a Juno co-investigator from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome ...

"Io represented a big mystery because its surface doesn't hold a record of its history the way that the surfaces of less active moons do." The solar system's most volcanic body, the Jupiter moon ...

The images are bringing different features on Io into focus like never ... astronomers compare it more to a lava sea sitting on Io’s surface.

A few more details about its violence came to light this week, with new images being released of the moon's features ... Io has some system that's cycling the sulfur dioxide that erupts to the ...

Two decades later, NASA’s Galileo mission sent back what Dr. Bolton calls “postage stamps,” or close-ups of specific features on Io’s surface. Juno conducted a number of more distant ...

We know that Io is roughly the same size as our Moon, and that it features an active lava lake ... lava from the planet’s core to seep to the surface. Here on Earth, similar growth lives ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in this area are chucking out six times the energy being produced by all ...

New data from the agency's Jovian orbiter sheds light on the fierce winds and cyclones of the gas giant's northern reaches and volcanic action on its fiery moon. NASA's Juno mission has gathered ...