What type of lander could touch down on Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io? This is what a recent paper presented at the AIAA 2025 Regional Student Conference hopes to address as a team of student engineers ...

NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by the violent eruptions on Jupiter’s moon Io. Now, thanks to Juno’s recent close ...

A new analysis of data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft reveals a subsurface “ocean” of magma–either molten or partially molten–beneath the surface of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. The finding, from a ...

"What makes the event even more extraordinary is that it did not involve a single volcano, but multiple active sources." ...

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 the ...

NASA is unraveling Io's volcanic secrets. The space agency's Juno spacecraft has been swooping progressively closer to Jupiter's profoundly volcanic moon Io, and its observations reveal the full scope ...

JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA’s Juno, captured this enhanced-color view of Jupiter’s northern high latitudes from an altitude of about 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above the giant ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft's mission to Jupiter has set its sights on the moon Io. The agency said in a release, sharing a striking image of the moon's volcano-laced surface captured in the infrared by ...

for determining the relative ages of surface regions there. The latest research about Io, much of it based on data from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, was reported Wednesday at the Lunar and Planetary ...

Earth that previously could be studied only from space. up to 85 percent. Strehl is a measure of the corrected image and a Strehl ratio of 100 percent equals a fully corrected, perfect image. The ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft was dispatched on a mission in 2011 to study the planet Jupiter. It has beamed back some truly stunning images and valuable data on the solar system's largest planet. While in ...