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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A new animation reveals an enormous lava lake on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. The close-up view comes from NASA's Juno spacecraft, which swept within 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the volcanic ...

What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking image of Io, one of Jupiter’s most volatile moons, captured by the Juno spacecraft during a close flyby on December 30, 2023. The detailed imagery provides an ...

NASA has revealed animations of the surface of Jupiter's moon Io, made using brand-new data gathered from the far-off moon. Io, which is Jupiter's third-largest moon, features large mountains and a ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft was dispatched on a mission in 2011 to study the planet Jupiter. It has beamed back some truly stunning images and valuable data on the solar system's largest planet. While in ...

NASA just released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. Released by the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab last week, the generated ...

The volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are like exotic dishes: they’re hot, spicy, and have unfamiliar ingredients, according to new data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Galileo’s near infrared mapping ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...

New pictures of the most volcanically active world in our solar system show it also has surface activity that resembles the accumulation and disappearance of bright snow or ice. The images from NASA’s ...

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 ...