NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Recently, the spacecraft has been making close flybys of the Jovian moon Io ... showing what it would look like to fly over this lava lake. Looking Into Io’s Loki Patera (Artist’s Concept ...

The study, published in Science, indicates that for most of - or possibly all - its 4.57 billion years of existence, Io has been an angry world. As Jupiter's innermost large moon, it is subject to ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at ... by Io, thanks to Jupiter itself and nearby moons Europa and Ganymede. It’s possible that the small moon may have once held water, like Europa or Ganymede ...

Illustration of the Jovian moon Io, seen against the backdrop of ... ForbesSee Jupiter Tonight: Why The 'King Of The Planets' Will Look Its Brightest, Biggest And Best This WeekBy Jamie Carter ...

You're not going to wake up one morning to see Jupiter hanging in the sky, but two stunning animations show what it would look like if you did ... look at Jupiter's moon Io.

NASA's Juno spacecraft detected the most intense volcanic eruption ever recorded on Jupiter's moon Io. During a flyby on December 27, 2024, Juno was approximately 74,400 kilometers from Io's ...