Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay NASA has released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. While the generated clip, released by the space agency's Jet Propulsion Lab last week,

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been investigating Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system, and has observed some dramatic features.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your

As NASA's Juno swooped in for two close flybys of the moon in December 2023 and February 2024, it took observations of regions we hadn't seen before, the northern latitudes, capturing some of Io's fire and fury live.

The incredible animations create three-dimensional renderings of one of Io’s mountains, and a lake of cooling lava.

Io has long been known to be volcanically active, but new research suggests that Jupiter's moon has been spewing lava since the dawn of the solar system, some 4.57 billion years a

Flybys of Jupiter’s moon Io, the only known volcanic world in our solar system, have captured images of a massive lava lake and a towering Matterhorn-like mountain.

NASA's Juno spacecraft was dispatched on a mission in 2011 to study the planet Jupiter. It has beamed back some truly stunning images and valuable data on the solar system's largest planet. While in the neighborhood,