A NASA spacecraft is set to swing past one of Jupiter’s moons Thursday, giving astronomers a close-up ... Io. Two of the close encounters will take the probe to within 930 miles of the moon's ...

This contributes to the moon’s volcanic activity as Io is constantly being stretched and squeezed due to its position. With its close flybys of Io, the team behind the Juno mission is ...

which passed the moon on 30 December. Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has been taking increasingly close images of Io in recent months as its path around Jupiter changes.

NASA's Juno spacecraft has now paid Jupiter's moon Io its second close-up visit in less than two Earth months. To mark the rendezvous, NASA and the Southwest Research Institute released a new ...

Last weekend, NASA's Juno spacecraft made its second flyby of Jupiter's moon Io in about a month ... skimmed the surface from 62 miles (100km) up in January 2002. Saturday's flyby provided ...

The hellish surface of a moon of Jupiter known as Io is riddled with hundreds of lava-spewing volcanoes that make the world ...

Juno’s observations have captured new lava flows and other volcanic deposits that have significantly altered the moon’s appearance since the last close-up observations. Io experiences its ...

No moon in our solar system is likely as chaotic as Io, Jupiter’s third ... when you’re not really close to the sun,” said Bolton. “Tidal forcing opens up an ability to get that energy ...