A new animation reveals an enormous lava lake on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. The close-up view comes from NASA's Juno spacecraft, which swept within 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) of the ...
Nasa has released a new animation of a giant lava lake discovered on Io's surface. Io has long been known to be volcanically active, but new research suggests that Jupiter's moon has been spewing ...
also known as “The Moon”. Io is wracked by volcanic activity though, with active lava flows on the surface, with mountain ranges and plains interspersed with calderas left over from volcanic ...
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 ...
About the same diameter as Earth’s moon, the innermost of Jupiter ... were able to spot a change in Io’s surface where Pillan Patera is spewing lava onto Pele’s surroundings.