Io is the third-largest natural satellite of Jupiter. Its thin atmosphere consists mainly of sulfur dioxide, and its characteristic yellow, orange, and red colors result from being covered in sulfur.

Using data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter’s highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...

Io’s long-debated magma ocean may not exist. Juno spacecraft data reveals that tidal forces deform the moon differently than ...

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.

Io, Jupiter's third-largest natural satellite, is about the same size as Earth's Moon. Its thin atmosphere, primarily composed of sulfur dioxide, gives the moon its striking yellow, orange ...

Europa is the sixth largest satellite in our Solar System and the smallest of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. Discovered by ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you find Jupiter ... four of the 95 natural satellites around the Solar System’s largest planet. Discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, Io, Callisto, Europa and Ganymede are proving to ...

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in ...