Io: The Solar System's Relentless Volcano World
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Io, Jupiter’s volcanically active moon with roughly 400 volcanoes and plumes hundreds of kilometres high, was first revealed by Voyager 1 in 1979 and is now understood to be powered by tidal heating that fuels local magma sources, continually resurfacing Io and feeding material into Jupiter’s magnetosphere.
- Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface — a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook the p Space Daily
- NASA’s Juno Takes Temperature of Jupiter’s Fiery Moon Io NASA (.gov)
- NASA’s Juno Probe Has Seen Inside The Solar System’s Most Volcanic World, And It's Pretty Hellish In There IFLScience
- Io’s Hidden Heat Revealed for the First Time eos.org
- Gravitational Tug-of-War Turns up the Heat on Jupiter's Moon Io, Causing Underground Temperatures to Soar Discover Magazine
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