Loki Patera isn’t the first lava lake scientists have spotted on Io; previous spacecraft, including Galileo (RIP) have also sent home images of similar features, but Juno’s pics are the ...

A graphic shows what a lava lake, called Loki Patera, may look like on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io.

Loki Patera might sound like the name of a Norse god's heavy metal band, but it is actually a lake made of lava located on one of Jupiter's moons, Io. On Sunday NASA scientists released a new ...

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.

There are over 400 volcanos on Io, the largest for a long while has been Loki Patera, a lava lake of 20,000 square kilometers (7,000 square miles). But during the latest flyby, on December 27 ...

Io is most volcanically active. This animation is an artist’s concept of Loki Patera, a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io, made using data from the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft.

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.

The volcanic feature, which has yet to be named, spans a colossal 40,000 square miles – dwarfing Io's previous record holder, a lava lake named Loki Patera that measured about 7,700 square miles ...

The new animation shows Loki Patera, a 127-mile-long lake of lava that scientists have been observing for many years. The strange island seen in the center of the lake may be made from cooled lava.

The image above depicts a lava lake known as Loki Patera, which measures about 127 miles (200 kilometers) across, making it the largest volcanic depression on the moon.

The new images show Loki Patera, a 127-mile-long (200 km) lava lake on Io's surface. Scientists have been observing this lava lake for decades. It sits over the magma reservoirs under Io's surface.