Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

shows the moon’s hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes are likely powered by individual magma channels — much like on Earth. The quest to reveal Io’s volatility begins with Jupiter ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The surface of Io, one of Jupiter's many moons, is an especially hostile environment – even for space. Scientists recently observed its atmosphere completely ...

JunoCam’s sequence of images of the NASA Juno mission's encounter with Jupiter's moon, io, on 3 February 2024. Comparison of Galileo and JunoCam data showing emergence of new volcano on Jupiter ...

Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is littered with hundreds of erupting volcanoes. High-resolution images now reveal several dozen lava lakes, researchers ...

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JunoCam’s sequence of images of the NASA Juno mission's encounter with Jupiter's moon, io, on 3 February 2024. Comparison of Galileo and JunoCam data showing emergence of new volcano on Jupiter ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption on Io, Jupiter’s most volcanic moon. The eruption site, detected on 27 December 2024, is fueled by a massive magma ...

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon and the solar system's largest, is bigger than Mercury and the dwarf planet Pluto, with a diameter of 5,268 kilometers.

The moon Io might look like a golden sphere ... Dotting its surface are more than 400 active volcanoes, some of which erupt plumes of sulfur and sulfur dioxide - a toxic gas that has a pungent ...