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NASA Probe Spies Plumes Above Jupiter Moon's Lava Lakes

Sat, 06/29/2024 - 14:53

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

lava, Juno, agenzia spaziale italiana, Environment, jovian infrared auroral mapper, volcano, alessandro mura

Yeah, That's a Freakin' Lava Lake on a Moon

Thu, 04/18/2024 - 16:40

Gizmodo : Environment

Two recent flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io by NASA’s Juno spacecraft revealed a couple of stunning surprises: a remarkably steep mountain and islands in the middle of a burbling lava lake. The new findings were announced yesterday by Scott Bolton, the principal investigator of the Juno mission, at the European Geophysical…

Juno, microwave radiometer, jupiter, europa, scott bolton, exploration of io, io

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