Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. An image of Jupiter and Io as seen by NASA's Juno on August 18, 2024 during its 64rd perijove. ... [+] Processed by citizen ...

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 devil works fast, but citizen scientists are definitely faster when it comes to turning data from the Juno mission into ...

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 ...

Io is well-known as the most geologically active world in the solar system, and it's not even close. It has more than 400 active volcanoes. Io is the closest moon to Jupiter, and the planet's ...

However, you’ll also find something else—art. Remixed ... Other feature Jupiter’s four biggest moons Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, which were first seen by Italian astronomer Galileo ...

But Io, Jupiter's bad-boy volcanic moon, is in a class of its own. There's nothing else like it in the solar system, and NASA's Juno spacecraft captured new images of the volcanic satellite during ...