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 to ...

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The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Galileo ...

Hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io are likely powered in the same way as Earth’s volcanoes. No moon in our solar system is likely as chaotic as Io, Jupiter’s third largest. The ...

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Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar ...

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NASA's Juno spacecraft has spied the final "auroral footprint" of a moon of Jupiter, meaning that it has watched as the moon Callisto interfered with one of Jupiter's planetary auroras. This had ...

In a landmark observation by a team of international researchers, NASA's Juno spacecraft has, for the first time, clearly ...