Here’s how it works. Io — Jupiter's fifth moon — is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Io's surface is peppered with hundreds of volcanoes, some spewing sulfurous plumes ...

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 ...

On March 9, 1979, Linda Morabito discovered a volcanic plume on Io, a moon of Jupiter, in one of the photos from Voyager 1. She wrote, “I could feel tears begin to roll down my face at the sight ...

Jupiter’s moon Io has possibly been erupting for a very, very, very long time. Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system, with some of its volcanoes shooting magma higher than ...

A new report suggests it was born this way. This image revealing the north polar region of the Jovian moon Io was taken on October 15, 2023, by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft.

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 NASA spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has just witnessed some of the most extreme volcanic eruptions ever seen in the solar system, coming from a giant underground magma chamber on the "tormented ...

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There are new, high-quality images of Jupiter's moon, Io, thanks to the nearest flyby of the celestial body by a spacecraft in decades. NASA released images Saturday taken by the Juno spacecraft ...