Moon Volcano

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  NASA's Juno Detects Io's Most Powerful Volcanic Eruption Yet

  NASA’s Juno spacecraft has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption on Io, Jupiter’s most volcanic moon. The eruption site, detected on 27 December 2024, is fueled by a massive magma chamber spanning 105,000 square kilometers. The heat energy released is estimated at 80 trillion watts, exceeding Earth’s total power output. The volcanic ac...

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  Moon Had Surprisingly Recent Volcanic Activity, Samples Confirm

  Volcanoes were erupting on the Moon as recently as 120 million years ago, evidence collected by a Chinese spacecraft suggests. Until the last few years, scientists had thought volcanic activity ended on the Moon around 2 billion years ago.

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  Scientists Discover Strange Planet That May Be "Melting From Within"

  Researchers described the planet as "Io on steroids". Io, Jupiter's third largest moon, is the most volcanic body in our solar system, with every inch of its surface covered in lava plains.

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  European Space Agency Shares Unseen Pics Of Mars' Towering Volcanoes, Planet's Largest Moon

  The European Space Agency recently shared never-before-seen pictures of the volcanic region on Mars.

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  Earth-Size Exoplanet, Likely Covered In Volcanoes, Discovered 90 Light Years Away

  Named LP 791-18 d, the exoplanet exhibits behaviour similar to Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active place in our Solar System.

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  NASA Reveals Photo Of Red-Hot Lava On Jupiter's Moon

  Io Volcano Observer mission said that the moon is "a true volcanic wonderland with hundreds of erupting volcanoes gushing tons of molten lava."

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  Water On Moon May Have Come From Ancient Volcanic Eruptions: Study

  A new research has suggested a very unlikely source for water on the lunar surface. It stated that the presence of water on the Earth's closest neighbour could be a result of volcanoes, which we now know occurred a number of times on the moon in the past.

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  On Saturn's Moon Titan, Volcano Like Features Found By NASA Spacecraft

  Saturn's moon Titan: The surface has landforms that are like those found on Earth. This has been revealed by NASA's Cassini mission.

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  Billionaire Wanted To Orbit Moon, But Ended Up In Court

  Harald McPike had been to the North Pole. The South Pole. Climbed the tallest peak in Africa, the volcano that is the highest point on Earth and the mountain that's not Everest but gives you a great view of its deadly face. What was left? He wanted to hit the moon with a tennis ball.

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  NASA Spacecraft Juno Discovers New Volcano On Jupiter's Moon

  Using data collected by NASA''s Juno spacecraft, scientists have got clues to a previously undiscovered volcano on the Jupiter moon Io.

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  Scientists Dive Into Precious Pluto Data

  From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA's New Horizons science team is busy analysing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto that the probe has revealed so far.

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  'Misplaced' Volcanoes on Jupiter's Moon Due to Magma Oceans

  Tides flowing in a subsurface ocean of molten rock, or magma, could explain why Jupiter's moon Io appears to have its volcanoes in the 'wrong' place and could also have implications for the search for alien life, a NASA study has found.

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  Underground Magma Ocean Could Explain Io's Misplaced Volcanoes

  It implies that oceans beneath the crusts of tidally stressed moons may be more common and last longer than expected.

• 'Man in the Moon' Likely Created by Volcano

  The Ocean of Storms on the near side of the moon, a giant basin often referred to as the "man in the moon", likely arose not from a massive asteroid strike but from a large plume of magma deep within the moon's interior, a US study said Wednesday.