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  2. Volcanism on Io - Wikipedia

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    Io, with two plumes erupting from its surface, Galileo image, June 1997. Volcanism on Io, a moon of Jupiter, is represented by the presence of volcanoes, volcanic pits and lava flows on the surface. Io's volcanic activity was discovered in 1979 by Linda Morabito, an imaging scientist working on Voyager 1. [1]

  3. List of volcanic features on Io - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter moon Io volcanic activity (left: December 14, 2022; right: March 1, 2023) This is a list of named volcanic surface features on Jupiter's moon Io. These names have been approved for use by the International Astronomical Union. The features listed below represent a subset of the total known volcanic features on Io's surface with the ...

  4. Io (moon) - Wikipedia

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    Io (/ ˈ aɪ. oʊ /), or Jupiter I, is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.Slightly larger than Earth's moon, Io is the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System, has the highest density of any moon, the strongest surface gravity of any moon, and the lowest amount of water by atomic ratio of any known astronomical object in the Solar System.

  5. Jupiter moon of Io is famed for its volcanoes. NASA just ...

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    The volcanic activity spotted on a planet famed for such ... the hectic conditions are perfect for Io's approximately 400 active volcanoes to endlessly spew lava dozens of mile into the air ...

  6. Loki Patera - Wikipedia

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    The level of activity seen is similar to a superfast spreading mid-ocean ridge on Earth. [4] It is the largest volcano on Io, producing about 10% of Io’s total thermal emission. [5] Temperature measurements of thermal emission at Loki Patera taken by Voyager 1's Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer and Radiometer (IRIS) instrument were ...

  7. NASA spacecraft beams back tantalizing images of volcanic ...

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    The pioneering Juno spacecraft, which arrived at Jupiter in 2016 and is now swooping by the planet's intriguing moons, recently snapped images of the Jovian moon Io from some 32,044 miles (51,570 ...

  8. Pele (volcano) - Wikipedia

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    Infrared image showing night-time thermal emission from the lava lake Pele. Galileo arrived at the Jupiter system in 1995 and, from 1996 to 2001, regularly monitored volcanic activity on Io through observations of Io's thermal emission at near-infrared wavelengths, imaging Io while it was in the Jupiter's shadow in order to look for thermal hotspots at visible and near-infrared wavelengths ...

  9. Mountains of Io - Wikipedia

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    The thrust faulting and uplifting of large crust blocks on Io are interpreted by a model proposed by Schenk and Bulmer's 1998 paper. [3] In the model, Io's crust keeps recycling. Violent volcanic activity brings lava to the surface and older, buried layers are forced to subside. The old volcanic crust materials are compressed laterally as they ...