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Even if a magma ocean is confirmed, “there are still a lot of uncertainties associated with trying to understand Io’s interior structure,” Tuttle Keane says.
Jupiter’s third-largest moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. New radio images by the ALMA telescope array show the direct effect of this volcanic activity on the ...
During multiple flybys of Io in the 1990s, NASA's Galileo spacecraft measured the magnetic field of the moon. Based on these observations, scientists concluded that a churning magma ocean beneath ...
Io's volcanic activity was discovered during the Voyager flyby of Jupiter, and further imaging has revealed a number of active volcanoes on the moon's surface—so many, that their total output is ...
“We’ve never really understood where in Io’s interior the mantle is melting, how that mantle melt is getting to the surface,” de Kleer said. Our own moon shows evidence of primeval tidal ...
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...
Though the surface of the moon is cold, at below minus 200 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 130 degrees Celsius), the volcanoes spewing out material from the planet’s hot interior can reach ...
Observations made of Jupiter’s moon Io during the Juno mission’s flybys helped astronomers confirm how and why Io became the most volcanic world in the solar system. CNN values your feedback 1.
No moon in our solar system is likely as chaotic as Io, Jupiter’s third largest. The rocky body looks like a pepperoni pizza because of the constant, numerous eruptions on its surface. The ...
(CNN) — Jupiter’s third-largest moon Io is covered by more than 400 active volcanoes, ... but also the tidal heating process and Io’s interior,” Luszcz-Cook said.