Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to observe gases in Io’s atmosphere—most notably, sulfur—de Kleer’s team did just that. They also estimated the moon ...

It is easy to imagine the moon as an atmosphere-less hunk of rock orbiting ... once been as hellish as Jupiter's super volcanic moon Io A whole 'population' of minimoons may be lurking near ...

NASA’s Juno spacecrafthas once again delivered breathtaking images of Jupiter, capturing the giant planet’s swirling storms ...

could reveal more about the composition of Io’s surface, as well as how the plentiful volcanoes affect the moon’s atmosphere. Juno’s powerful microwave instrument, designed especially for ...

and then sending it through volcanoes into the atmosphere repeatedly. In fact, taking the current rate of mass loss, they calculate that Io's volcanism dates back to the formation of the moon ...

Thanks to the Juno probe mission, a mystery about Jupiter's moon Io that ... body in the Solar System. Io is the third-largest natural satellite of Jupiter. Its thin atmosphere consists mainly ...

Jupiter’s moon Io has been continuously remodelled ... to measure the ratio in Io’s atmosphere. Then, by modelling how much sulphur Io might be losing each year, the team could work back ...

The result may have been comparable to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in the solar system. Early in the history of the solar system, a massive protoplanet plowed into a young Earth. The ...

which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 and is scheduled to fly only a couple hundred miles from the Jovian moon this December. Because Io is far from the sun and has a very thin atmosphere ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world one of chaos and violence. The brutal conditions also make Io intriguing ...