NASA's Juno spacecraft detects most intense volcanic eruption on Io
The eruption released energy six times greater than all Earth's power plants combined, exceeding 80,000 trillion watts.
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Scientists Are Stunned by Juno’s Groundbreaking Discovery Beneath Io’s Volcanic Surface
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has delivered a stunning revelation about Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Once believed to harbor a global magma ocean beneath its surface ...
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Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just spotted the most powerful one yet
For nine years, a spacecraft known as the Juno orbiter has divided its time between observing the gas giant of Jupiter and studying its moons, including Io. And on its third flyby of the celestial ...
NASA spacecraft flew by distant world. It saw unprecedented volcanism.
On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.
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NASA Captures 'Most Intense Volcanic Eruption Ever' on Jupiter's Moon Io
Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...
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NASA's Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter's moon Io
An image shows Io and the Juno spacecraft with a top down view of its south pole and the solar system's biggest record volcanic eruption ringed. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)/NASA/JPL ...
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Juno Probe Spots Largest Known Volcanic Event on Io
Since completing its primary science objectives in orbit of Jupiter, Juno has been conducting flybys of the Jovian moons Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. The spacecraft completed two very close ...
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In Photos: See The Jaw-Dropping New NASA Images Of Jupiter And Io Moon
Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. An image of Jupiter and Io as seen by NASA's Juno on August 18, 2024 during its 64rd perijove. ... [+] Processed by citizen ...
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Jupiter's 'tormented moon' Io just unleashed the most powerful volcanic event ever seen
During Juno's latest flyby of Io, on Dec. 27, 2024, the spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument detected a massive new infrared hot spot in the moon's southern hemisphere ...
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NASA's Juno probe gets a close-up look at lava lakes on Jupiter's moon Io
New findings from NASA's Juno probe provide a fuller picture of how widespread the lava lakes are on Jupiter's moon Io and include first-time insights into the volcanic processes at work there.
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Volcanoes on a moon of Jupiter erupted larger than Lake Superior
As demonstrated by explosive news from NASA on Tuesday: Io’s southern hemisphere contains a hotspot of volcanic activity so massive, it is larger than Lake Superior. Detected by the Juno probe's ...
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NASA's Juno spacecraft watches most powerful volcanic event ever seen on Jupiter's moon Io
Even for Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system, a recent volcanic event witnessed by NASA's Juno spacecraft takes the biscuit. The event was just one eruption centralized ...