Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

The moon, discovered by Barnard, orbits Jupiter within the orbit of Io and was named Amalthea after the nymph who, according to Greek mythology, fed Zeus with goat's milk in his childhood. Images ...

As scientists explain, the moon Io is extremely close to Jupiter, and its low orbit means it orbits the gas giant every 42.5 hours. Furthermore, its orbit is elliptical, and as the distance from ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

JUPITER'S satellite Io has remarkable control of Jovian decametric radio emission (recently reviewed 1,2) and also a very high and possibly varying albedo 3,4.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Data from NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed unexpected variations in electron energies within the Alfvén wing connecting Jupiter and its moon Io. These electrons ...

The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

19, 2024 — By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io -- the most volcanically ... or eccentric, orbit of any known planet. It appears to be a juvenile planet that is in the ...

NASA's Juno to Enter Jupiter's Orbit After a final 35-minute engine burst to slow it down Monday night, the NASA explorer spacecraft named Juno will attempt to enter Jupiter's polar orbit.

Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in early 2024, a Southwest Research Institute-led team identified electrons ...