NASA’s Juno spacecraft has uncovered an immense volcanic hot spot on Jupiter’s moon Io, surpassing any previously recorded eruptions in the solar system. This fiery inferno, detected by the JIRAM ...
Loki Patera is 202 kilometres (126 mi) in diameter, covers 20,000 sq km (7,700 sq mi), and was the largest volcanic feature ...
NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...
a Juno mission investigator from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome, said in the statement. "However, we have evidence what we detected is actually a few closely spaced hot spots that ...
On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.
a Juno co-investigator from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome, said in a statement. The hot spot was later determined to in fact be several hot spots located close together that ...