Understanding The Moon & Earth. Since the Apollo missions more than half a century ago, the composition of the Moon and its usable resources have been a topic of interest to scien ...

Combining a new imaging instrument with the powerful adaptive optics capabilities of the Large Binocular Telescope, astronomers have captured a volcanic event on Jupiter's moon Io at a resolution ...

No moon in our solar system is likely as chaotic as Io, Jupiter’s third largest. The rocky body looks like a pepperoni pizza because of the constant, numerous eruptions on its surface. The volcanic ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft caught Jupiter’s moon Io, the planet’s third-largest moon, undergoing a volcanic eruption. NASA/JPL/DLR On March 9, 1979, Linda Morabito discovered a volcanic plume on Io, a ...

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With the first detailed observations of a lava lake on a moon of Jupiter, the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona places itself as the forerunner of the next generation of Extremely Large ...

Jupiter’s moon Io has been continuously shaped by volcanic activity for billions of years — possibly even for the Solar System’s entire 4.57-billion-year history, a study suggests. The findings, ...