New findings from NASA's Juno probe provide a fuller picture of how widespread the lava lakes are on Jupiter's moon Io and include first-time insights into the volcanic processes at work there.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

 "We also got some great close-ups and other data on a 200-kilometer-long lava lake called Loki Patera ... image of its south polar region of the moon. Nasa said that Jupiter was likely the ...

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

suggesting that the moon's subsurface is home to a vast magma chamber. "The data supports that this is the most intense ...

Io is Jupiter's third-largest moon, spanning roughly 2,300 miles ... hellscape covered with up to 400 volcanoes and multiple lava lakes. Io is frequently monitored by NASA's Juno spacecraft ...

which leads to the moon being relentlessly squeezed. The result: immense energy from frictional heating that melts portions of Io’s interior, resulting in a seemingly endless series of lava ...

On Earth, granite is the result of the cooling of molten lava from ... surface. Moon rise at sunset over the Three Sisters mountains—part of the Cascade volcanoes—at Scott Lake, ...