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On the early morning of August 8, Jupiter's four largest moons will align, offering a spectacular view for stargazers in the U.S.
NASA has used a tool that was never meant to be used to study other cosmic bodies, but the space agency used it to see the ...
NASA Juno spacecraft data has been used to create an animation of "Steeple Mountain" and a lava lake known as Loki Patera on Jupiter's moon Io. Credit: Space.com | NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS | edited ...
Io, one of Jupiter’s Jovian moons, is the most volcanic place in our entire Solar System. Over the last few years NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been making closer and closer passes of the fiery hotspot ...
Jupiter and Earth were near their closest all year, but it still took over half an hour for a signal to go from Earth to the probe or vice-versa.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has spotted the most powerful volcanic eruption ever seen on the solar system's most volcanic body, the Jovian moon Io.
Juno will complete another close flyby of Io on February 3, 2024, which will allow scientists to compare changes on the surface of the hellish moon to see how the surface might be evolving over ...
NASA's Juno spacecraft observed hot lava spots and fresh lava flows on Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic world in our solar system.
Not only have Io’s volcanoes been observed to shoot volcanic material hundreds of miles into space, but its lava fields also spread almost as far across its surface due to the much smaller gravity.
New infrared images showcase "fire-breathing" lakes all across the surface of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io.
NASA's Juno mission might have originally been all about Jupiter, but its extended mission has the spacecraft observing the gas giant's moons — and it's making some pretty interesting discoveries. Its ...
New secrets about Jupiter's volcanically volatile moon Io have been revealed by NASA 's Juno probe. Io, Jupiter's third-largest moon, is covered in lakes made of lava, according to a new paper in ...