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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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Astronomers just made an extremely detailed map of the solar system's most volcanically active body, Jupiter's moon Io, thanks to a rare orbital alignment. Jupiter's third largest moon, Io sees at ...
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 ...
This false-color composite of Jupiter's moon Io is the highest resolution image taken by the space probe Galileo. Dark spots, many flagged by bright red pyroclastic deposits, mark the sites of current ...