The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world ...

of the volcanic surface of Io in December 2023 and January 2024. These flybys provided the closest look ever at Jupiter's innermost large moon. Io hosts hundreds of active volcanoes. According to ...

On Dec. 28, 2024, during its 68th close flyby of Jupiter, the school bus-sized probe captured stunning images of Jupiter’s dynamic atmosphere and the fiery surface of its moon, Io. The data ...

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 ...

Due to the shape of its orbit, the moon's distance from its parent planet varies, and so too does ... Io's interior might be home to a large magma ocean, stretching beneath its entire surface like ...

Scientists think there’s an ocean of magma under its rocky surface. Io, which orbits Jupiter every 42 hours, was imaged by the only binocular telescope of its kind. Equipped with two 27-foot ...

Among Juno's instruments getting a good look at the beguiling ... revealed that the whole surface of Io is covered by lava lakes contained in caldera-like features," said Alessandro Mura, a ...

This allowed the team to compare what the region looked like in this latest flyby to how it appeared in images captured in two previous trips past Io. They found changes in surface coloring around ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as ... Juno will use a more-distant flyby of Io on March 3 to look at the hot spot again and search for changes in the landscape.

Related: Space photo of the week: An eerie look at Io, the most volcanic world ... Juno also captured photographs of Io, which revealed that a large dark patch has emerged on the moon's surface. This ...