"It's likely concentrated there because Jupiter's co-rotating magnetic field traps sulfur particles spewing from Io's volcanoes and slams them against the backside of Europa." SwRI intends to ...

Instead, the authors think Io has been recycling the sulfur dioxide through the atmosphere, back to the surface, and then sending it through volcanoes into the atmosphere repeatedly. In fact ...

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 ...

but a sulfur-rich material that looks like white snow, said Dr. Alfred McEwen, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, Tucson. In some of Io’s active volcanic plumes, the volatile ...

towering columns of sulfur-rich lava confetti, and cauldrons of liquid rock that act like portals into Io’s underworld. “It’s awesome,” says de Kleer. “It has these volcanoes that give ...

Io’s volcanic origins have baffled scientists ... The volcanic activity fills the skies with sulfur dioxide and is constantly changing features on the ground. It’s the most volcanically ...

Using data from the ALMA radio observatory in Chile, de Kleer and colleagues determined the concentrations of both heavy and light variants of sulfur and chlorine in Io’s atmosphere. Volcanic ...

The eastern side of the volcano is stained a diffuse red from sulfur that has been vented by the volcano into space and fallen back onto Io's surface. On the western side, two dark streams of lava ...

and volcanic-plume deposits rich in sulfur and sulfur dioxide. Juno will use an upcoming, more distant flyby of Io on March 3 ...

Io likely has extensive sulfur volcanism from the heat generated as Jupiter tugs at the tiny volcanic moon. Just add sulfur flows to the list of things that volcanoes can produce both here and in ...