NASA Probe Spies Plumes Above Jupiter Moon's Lava Lakes

It’s not a big moon relative to afew of its neighbors, but Jupiter’s Io is exceedingly active, with volcanoes by the hundreds spewing lava plumes dozens of miles above its surface, per NASA. Infrared tech aboard the space agency’s Juno probe mapped two such eruptions in February, returning valuable data on the…Read more...

Jun 30, 2024 - 04:30
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NASA Probe Spies Plumes Above Jupiter Moon's Lava Lakes

It’s not a big moon relative to afew of its neighbors, but Jupiter’s Io is exceedingly active, with volcanoes by the hundreds spewing lava plumes dozens of miles above its surface, per NASA. Infrared tech aboard the space agency’s Juno probe mapped two such eruptions in February, returning valuable data on the…

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