Juno Detects Massive Volcanic Hotspot near Io’s South Pole

Jan 29, 2025 - 13:30
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Juno Detects Massive Volcanic Hotspot near Io’s South Pole
A massive hotspot can be seen just to the right of Io’s south pole in this image taken by the JIRAM infrared imager aboard NASA’s Juno on December 27, 2024, during the spacecraft’s flyby of the Jovian moon. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / ASI / INAF / JIRAM.

The newly-discovered volcanic hotspot is larger than Earth’s Lake Superior, and belches out eruptions six times the total energy of all the world’s power plants.

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