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 ...
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.
We knew data from Juno’s two very close flybys could give us some insights on how this tortured moon actually worked.” Io orbits around Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system ...
How old is the Moon? Astronaut-gathered samples from the lunar surface put its age at about 4.35 billion years. However, ...
This process is called "tidal heating." It is how Jupiter currently heats up its moon Io, the most volcanically active spot in the solar system. "We think that the Moon went through a period when ...
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Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing ...