Io, one of Jupiter’s Galilean satellites, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Images from spacecraft have shown molten lava erupting along walls that dam giant lava lakes and towering plumes of gas and dust rising from broad calderas. Now, a team led by planetary scientist Ashley Davies at NASA’s Jet PropulsionContinue reading “First-of-its-kind map of Io’s volcanoes hints at subsurface magma ocean”
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