(For every four times Io orbits Jupiter, Europa does so twice and Ganymede ... Planetary scientists don't know quite what will happen next. After all, the tidal stresses on Io won't go away.

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than expected if a magma ocean were present. Instead, Io’s mantle appears mostly ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

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Sep. 19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically active location in the solar system -- astronomers have been able to study a fundamental ...

Callisto lies much farther east, and Io sits alone to Jupiter’s west. By midnight in the Central time zone, Europa has pulled ahead and is just slipping in front of the jovian disk. Ganymede ...

JUPITER'S satellite Io has remarkable control of Jovian decametric radio emission (recently reviewed 1,2) and also a very high and possibly varying albedo 3,4.