Squeezing Secrets From Jupiter’s Moons: Juice’s Expedition to the Outer Solar System
ESA’s Juice mission will explore Jupiter and its intriguing Galilean moons — Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto — to study their hidden oceans, magnetic fields, and…
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Jupiter’s Innermost Moon – Io – Has Spectacular Dunes
Rutgers study shows new way dunes can form on varied celestial surfaces. Scientists have long pondered how Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Captures Stunning View of Jupiter’s Moons Io and Europa – And a Crater on Ganymede
NASA’s Juno mission captured this view of Jupiter’s southern hemisphere during the spacecraft’s 39th close flyby of the planet on January 12, 2022. Zooming in…
Hear the Eerie Radio Emissions NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Recorded From Jupiter and Its Moon Io
The Juno Waves instrument “listened” to the radio emissions from Jupiter’s immense magnetic field to find their precise locations. By listening to the rain of…
Volcanic Impact on Jupiter’s Moon Io Shown Directly for the First Time
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of Jupiter’s…
Jupiter’s Moons Could be Warming Each Other through Tidal Resonance
The gravitational push and pull by Jupiter’s moons could account for more warming than the gas giant Jupiter alone. Jupiter’s moons are hot. Well, hotter…
Hints of a Volcanically Active Exomoon Orbiting a Planet 550 Light-Years Away
A rocky extrasolar moon (exomoon) with bubbling lava may orbit a planet 550 light-years away from us. This is suggested by an international team of…
Juno Data Indicate Another Possible Volcano on Jupiter Moon Io
Data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft using its Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument point to a new heat source close to the south pole…
Color-Enhanced Juno Image of Jupiter, Io and Europa
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captured this color-enhanced image of Jupiter and two of its largest moons – Io and Europa – during its eighth flyby of…
Scientists Reveal the Mystery of Io’s “Misplaced” Volcanoes
A newly published study examines the mystery of Io’s “misplaced” volcanoes, revealing that it has to do with the interaction between heat produced by fluid…
LBT Reveals Lava Lake on Jupiter’s Moon Io
The Large Binocular Telescope provides the first detailed observations of a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io. With the first detailed observations of a lava…
Astronomers View Three Massive Volcanic Eruptions on Jupiter’s Moon Io
Using Keck II telescope, the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near-infrared spectrometer on NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility, astronomers viewed three massive…
Io’s Volcanoes Are Not Located Where Scientists Expected
Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency believe volcanic activity on Io is located 30 to 60 degrees East from where they expected it…
Study Finds a Mixture of Both Deep and Shallow Heating on Io
By examining data from NASA’s Voyager and Galileo missions and incorporating infrared data obtained from telescopes on Earth, astronomers discovered that the heat pouring out…
USGS Map Details Volcanos on the Surface of Io
This new map was published last Monday by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and it showcases the hellish surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, the…
