Signs of volcanoes abound in new images of Io, the most active moon in our solar system. But the moon wasn’t always famous for its plumes and lava lakes.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft took this image Io, showing the Jovian moon illuminated in sunlight reflected off of Jupiter’s surface. In both December 2023 and February 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft soared over Jupiter’s moon, Io.
Some scientists at the time were already starting to suspect that Io was active thanks to Jupiter’s gravitational pull,. But it was Voyager 1 that substantiated their suspicions, finding the first active volcano outside our planet on its faraway terrain. Studying these images could reveal Io’s patterns of volcanic activity — a tough task turned tougher by blurry and inadequate imagery. Not only that; the images could also clear up the origin of Io’s volcanos, determining the degree of Jupiter’s influence on the moon’s rocky outbursts.
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