NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.

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NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA's Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption centralized ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

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Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System. The gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and its other large moons squeezes Io so that its interior is molten.

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io as captured by the Juno spacecraft on Oct. 15, 2023. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Image processing by Ted Stryk On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft ...

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Juno has performed multiple flybys of Io, and images from its latest one show an enormous hotspot near the moon's south pole. Juno was sent to Jupiter to study the giant planet, but that primary ...

Jupiter’s moon Io has once again demonstrated why it holds the title of the most volcanically active body in the solar system. NASA’s Juno mission has detected an enormous volcanic hot spot in Io’s ...