The Cassini spacecraft has captured the most detailed images ever taken of the Io torus, a doughnut-shaped ring of charged particles that surrounds Jupiter and is replenished by the planet's moon Io.

Here’s what they think is happening: Io blasts sulfur into space. This forms a torus, a doughnut-shaped region of plasma surrounding Jupiter (yellow-green in the illustration above).

Recent strange activity around Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, confused and excited scientists. By Oliver Whang Io, the third largest of Jupiter’s moons, is caught in a pressurized, explosive ...

The most volcanic body in the solar system, Io produces outbursts every year with one the largest occurring in Fall 2022. A massive volcanic eruption has been spotted emerging from Jupiter's moon ...

Io also causes glowing spots hundreds of miles across on its mother planet that are similar to the aurora borealis or northern lights in the Northern Hemisphere on Earth.. As Jupiter spins, its ...

The mutilated surface of Jupiter’s moon Io was revealed in great detail by the Juno spacecraft, which has been exploring the Jovian system since 2016 and recently pulled off the closest flyby of ...

Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter’s moon Io, a satellite the size of Earth’s moon, within a two-week period last August. Astronomers think that these presumed rare outbursts ...

Glowing spots on Jupiter created by electron beams around Io. Skip to main ... Theglowing spots on Jupiterare typically located downstream of the flow of charged particles from theplasma torus.

Jupiter’s moon Io — the most geologically-active body in the solar system — had a record breaking volcanic outburst last year, a scientist has found. Physicist Dr Jeff Morgenthaler of the ...

This forms a torus, a doughnut-shaped region of plasma surrounding Jupiter (yellow-green in the illustration above). The magnetic field of the giant planet ionizes the sulfur. As Jupiter's magnetic ...

Io (pronounced ee-o or eye-o), the innermost of Jupiter’s four large “Galilean” moons, is about 2,300 miles across and the most volcanically active planet or moon in our solar system. It also is the ...