Jupiter’s moon Io is one the most exotic places in the entire solar system. It is also one of the worst places to try and establish a human colony (though none of the bodies in our solar system really ...
A study utilizing ALMA observations of Io's atmosphere reveals a significant depletion of lighter sulfur isotopes, suggesting extensive and prolonged volcanic activity throughout its 4.57 billion-year ...
A NASA spacecraft made its closest-ever approach to Jupiter's moon Io, coming within 930 miles of the "surface of the most volcanic world," and the space agency released new images of the flyby. The ...
Jupiter's moon Io may host alien life in protected lava tubes. Now, Avi Loeb claims the anomalous interstellar object ...
Image of volcanic plume on Io from NASA's Galileo spacecraft taken in June 1997. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ University of Arizona) Image of first evidence of active volcanism on Io taken by NASA's ...
Scientists can say two things with certainty about Io. First, this moon of Jupiter is the most volcanic object in the known universe. Its surface is festooned with so many lava-spewing calderas that ...
One of the biggest volcanic eruptions ever seen in the solar system has been spotted on Jupiter’s active moon Io. The huge eruption took place in August 2013 but has now been revealed in a series of ...
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Why it's so special: NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured the closest views of Io since NASA's Galileo spacecraft imaged the volcanic world in 2001. Passing within just 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of ...
Rosaly Lopes spent five years carefully inspecting a churning landscape where molten rock spilled forth like the arced jets of a water fountain. Using data from an orbiting probe, she picked out ...