In March and April 2025, internet users shared a striking image that they claimed showed "Steeple Mountain," a massive point ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The surface of Io, one of Jupiter's many moons, is an especially hostile environment – even for space. Scientists recently observed its atmosphere completely ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to huge heights.

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The one member of our Solar System that surpasses Earth in volcanic vitality is Io, Jupiter’s innermost moon. Containing around 400 powerful volcanoes, Io is influenced by Jupiter’s gravitational pull ...

JunoCam’s sequence of images of the NASA Juno mission's encounter with Jupiter's moon, io, on 3 February 2024. Comparison of Galileo and JunoCam data showing emergence of new volcano on Jupiter ...

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Jupiter’s moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, is littered with hundreds of erupting volcanoes. High-resolution images now reveal several dozen lava lakes, researchers ...

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