A bit larger than our Moon, Io is the innermost of Jupiter’s four large moons. As it circles Jupiter, Io is gravitationally perturbed by its three sister moons, first being pushed slightly closer to ...

The friction builds up heat inside Io and causes ... Ganymede and now Io, but not Callisto. However, that moon will be imaged 21 times during close flybys by the European Space Agency's JUpiter ...

Jupiter moon Io, imaged by SHARK-VIS on Jan. 10, 2024. This is the highest resolution image of Io ... [+] ever obtained by an Earth-based telescope. The image combines three spectral bands ...

Two very close recent flybys of Io by the Juno spacecraft have revealed more detail about the most volcanic world in the solar system - Jupiter's mysterious moon, Io. Nasa has released a new ...

Or perhaps more likely, look at under a microscope. The latest candidate for hosting nearby life is Jupiter’s moon, Io. Let’s take a look at what makes Io special, and what we might hope to ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft, part of the Juno mission launched in 2011, has captured groundbreaking images of a significant ...

Jupiter, its Great Red Spot and three of its four largest satellites are visible in this photo taken Feb. 5, 1979, by Voyager 1. Io, Europa, and Callisto are seen against Jupiter disk.