On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.
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 ...
Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...
The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing to NASA scientists intent on learning ... still led to a fascinating discovery: a massive volcanic hot spot on the moon's southern hemisphere.
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 ...
An image shows Io and the Juno spacecraft with a top down view of its south pole and the solar system's biggest record volcanic eruption ringed. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA/JPL ...