NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.

2023 and Feb. 2024 and came to within about 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the Jovian moon's surface. In particular, the large volcanic hotspot was observed when Juno made its latest Io flyby on ...

The eruption released energy six times greater than all Earth's power plants combined, exceeding 80,000 trillion watts.

BOTH naked eye and photographic observations of the visible surface of the planet Jupiter ... from place to place at the level of the Jovian clouds. All spectroscopic searches for characteristic ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our solar system.' ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded ...

The Jovian moon Io has more than 400 active volcanoes ... passing within 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of Io's surface. Its more recent visits have been at a much higher altitude of 46,200 miles ...

These results come courtesy of Juno's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM ... theories on the types of volcanic eruptions across the surface of the moon, little supporting data exists.

While multiple spacecraft have visited the Jovian moon since the 1960s, those previous two flybys were the closest any had gotten to Io's surface since the Galileo probe made numerous close flybys ...