The discovery solves a 44-year-old mystery of why, and how, Jupiter's violent moon, Io, became so volcanically active. Io is only slightly larger than our moon, with a diameter of 2,237 miles ...
Researchers from the Juno mission have finally solved a mystery that has puzzled scientists for over four decades.
New measurements from NASA's Juno probe have seemingly put to bed the possibility of a magma ocean beneath the surface of Io.
Scientists with the Juno mission to Jupiter have discovered that the volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io are each likely powered ...
Io does not have a shallow global magma ocean beneath its surface, counter to previous claims, suggests a paper published in ...
Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the ...
NASA's recent flybys of Io, however, reveal that it likely doesn't contain a global magma ocean beneath its surface, as ...
Hundreds of volcanoes and lava lakes on Jupiter’s moon Io are likely powered in the same way as Earth’s volcanoes.
If the planet has a liquid ocean underneath, its yellow crust caked in sulfur, it will be more squishable compared to a more ...
Research conducted by scientists with NASA’s Juno mission has unveiled the mechanisms behind intense volcanic activity on Jupiter’s moon, Io. The findings suggest that the volcanoes on the moon are ...