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 ...
Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...
On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.
But in the grand scheme of the solar system, Earth's Moon isn't as big as you might think. Oberon is Uranus’s second-largest ...
Io is the most volcanic world in the solar system, with around 400 volcanoes. Its extreme activity is driven by "tidal flexing" from Jupiter's crushing gravity. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI ...
Dust off your old telescope on a clear night and look up. If you find Jupiter, you’ll likely see four small dots to the side ...
Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA's Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption centralized ...
Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...
The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body in our solar system. As demonstrated by explosive news from NASA on ...