#io volcano

[krakenmare]

Eruption of Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter's moon Io (March 1, 2007)

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io keep erupting. To investigate, NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft has begun a series of visits to this very strange moon. Io is about the size of Earth's moon, but because of gravitational flexing by Jupiter and other moons, Io's interior gets heated and its surface has become covered with volcanoes. The featured image is from last week's flyby, passing within 12,000 kilometers above the dangerously active world. The surface of Io is covered with sulfur and frozen sulfur dioxide, making it appear yellow, orange and brown. As hoped, Juno flew by just as a volcano was erupting -- with its faint plume visible near the top of the featured image.

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS; Processing: Ted Stryk & Fernando García Navarro

[spaceexp]

Active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon, Io, captured by Juno spacecraft in 2023.

[nemfrog]

"A specal color reconstruction of the eruption of the volcano Loki pn the Iovian satellite Io. The picture was taken by the Voyager I from a range of about half a million kilometers." March 5, 1979.

Voyage to Jupiter. 1980. Scientific and Technical Information Branch NASA.

[mindblowingscience]

Jupiter's moon, Io, is the most volcanic body in the Solar System. NASA's Juno spacecraft has been getting closer and closer to Io in the last couple of years, giving us our first close-up images of the moon in 25 years. Recent JunoCam images show a new volcano that appeared sometime after the Galileo spacecraft visited the region. The new volcano is just south of Io's equator. Since tidal heating from Jupiter causes Io's volcanic activity, most volcanoes are in the moon's equatorial region, within about 30 degrees north and south of the equator.

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[livingforstars]

Erupting Volcanoes on Io - August 5th, 1996.

"Jupiter's moon Io has active volcanoes. The Voyager spacecraft caught several erupting when they passed the energetic moon in 1979. In the above picture, several of Io's volcanoes are visible and one is seen actually erupting. Debris from this explosive event can be seen on the upper left side of the photo, just beyond Io's edge. Io's volcanism is thought to be caused by the large tidal distortions raised by Jupiter, Europa, and Ganymede. These tides stretch Io, cause internal friction, and thus heat the interior. The hot interior then expands and forces its way out through volcanoes."

[thefirststarr]

Boom!! There goes another one! One of Jupiters many moons, Io, is about the size of Earth's moon, but its surface is full of volcanic activity. This is due to gravitational flexing by Jupiter and other moons. The process heats the moons interior, covering the surface with volcanoes. The featured image is from NASA’s robotic June spacecrafts fly by last week, passing within 12,000 kilometers above the dangerously active world. The surface of Io is covered with sulfur and frozen sulfur dioxide, making it appear yellow, orange and brown. As hoped, Juno flew by just as a volcano was erupting -- with its faint plume visible near the top of the featured image. Studying Io's volcanoes and plumes helps scientists better understand how Jupiter's complex system of moons, rings, and auroras interact. Juno is scheduled to make two flybys of Io during the coming months that are almost 10 times closer: one in December and another in February 2024.

Image credit: NASA

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[planetaryalphabet]

Jupiter’s moon Io. About the size of Earth’s moon. It’s covered with volcanos.

(NASA/JPL)

[netmassimo]

At the European Geophysical Union General Assembly held in Vienna last week, NASA's Juno mission principal investigator Scott Bolton illustrated some new discoveries offered by the Juno space probe, including some regarding Io, Jupiter's volcano-covered moon. Io was also studied by a team of researchers who used the ALMA radio telescope to map the movements of sulfur isotopes and reconstruct the tidal heating that generates the intense volcanic activity. The results were published in an article in the journal "Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets".

[lokiinmediasideblog]

Tournament of Lokis: Round 2

Round 1 Winners:

-Myth!Loki (The Simpsons)

-Loki from LWML

-Alligator!Loki (MCU)

-AoA!Loki (Marvel comics)

-Loke (Valhalla (2019))

-Lokiceratops

Round 2:

[jackiebranc]

IO – 🌔 JunoCam / 2024-02-03

NASA's Juno spacecraft camera RAW images processing

Io (Jupiter I) is the innermost and second-smallest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter.

"New NASA photos offer a close look at Jupiter's fiery moon with erupting volcanos that dwarf anything on Earth", BUSINESS INSIDER, read more -> https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-close-up-photos-show-volcanoes-erupt-on-jupiters-moon-2024-2

Credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech /SwRI / MSSS / Jackie Branc © CC BY

[kimlion13]

Io, photographed by NASA’s Juno spacecraft

[yaminerua]

red dwarf has made it so that every time I see an article about some new discovery or info about Jupiter or Saturn’s moons I become that dicaprio pointing meme

[blasteffect]

Io, in all of its volcanic glory!

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos ©

[mindblowingscience]

Jupiter's Io stands apart from the solar system's other moons, with its numerous volcanoes and its surface dominated by lava flows. Io's surface volcanism was confirmed in 1979 when the Voyager spacecraft imaged it, but its volcanic nature isn't duplicated anywhere else in our system. Tidal heating is behind the moon's eruptive nature, driven by Jupiter's powerful gravity, and by resonance with other moons. But is there a magma ocean inside Io? A final answer to that question has been elusive, but new research supports the idea of a magma ocean. NASA's Juno mission has shifted its focus from Jupiter to the gas giant's moons, beginning with the volcanic Io. It's flybys are getting increasingly closer to the unique moon, and the decreasing distance is giving the spacecraft a better and better look. It's identified 266 active volcanoes, and together, they're evidence of a vast global ocean of magma according to new research.

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