Volcanic fissures ooze lava onto the moon's surface, filling impact craters and creating new floodplains of liquid rock. While Io's exact composition is unknown, it is likely molten sulfur and its ...

Io’s volcanism means that the moon resurfaces itself every million ... it might have taken for countless eruptions to shift its composition from an ancient starting point. Yet as they reported ...

Measuring the composition of the returned dust will ... of water (like the orange glass beads on Earth’s moon) hinting that Io was once like its famous neighbor, the wet and possibly habitable ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists ... return mission could address include Io's geologic and isotopic composition, plume source and composition ...

The exact composition of Io remains unknown to researchers, however, NASA believes the moon is likely composed of molten sulfur or silicate rock while its atmosphere is made primarily of carbon ...

Io’s mineral composition is constantly pulled and pushed by gravity, creating frictional heat deep inside the moon. This makes it extremely volcanically active — there are hundreds of ...

We knew data from Juno’s two very close flybys could give us some insights on how this tortured moon actually worked.” Io orbits around Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system ...

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 ...

A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the ... "This could be telling us something about the composition of the volcanic activity that produced ...