NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

"This is the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system — so that's really ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

NASA’s Juno mission found Io’s biggest volcanic eruption ever. The explosion was stronger than all Earth’s power plants ...

The eruption released energy six times greater than all Earth's power plants combined, exceeding 80,000 trillion watts.

Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature found on Io until these new observations revealed the hot spot in the south ...

A massive hotspot - larger the Earth's Lake Superior - can be seen just to the right of Io's south pole in this annotated ...

While Io’s surface includes at least 400 volcanoes with varying levels of ... resulting in a seemingly endless series of lava plumes and ash venting into its atmosphere from the estimated ...

As a result, molten lava erupts onto the surface of Io via the 400 or so volcanoes that the moon is covered with. This lava brings along plumes of gas and ash that fill the atmosphere of Io.

"Io's volcanic activity results in plumes of gas and ash that fill its atmosphere, and the lava eruptions carry these materials, painting its surface and creating dunes formed by lava flows ...