SMRTR Science & EngineeringDec 13, 2024Science Daily

Heart of Jovian moon's volcanic rage

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NASA's Juno mission has discovered that volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io are likely powered by individual magma chambers rather than a global magma ocean. This finding, based on gravity measurements from close flybys, solves a 44-year-old mystery about Io's subsurface geology and challenges previous assumptions about planetary formation and evolution.

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