Io's Volcanic Activity Revealed

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NASA solves 44-year-old mystery of why Jupiter's Io is so volcanically active

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Jupiter 's violent moon Io is only slightly larger than our moon, with a diameter of 2,237 miles ( 3,600 kilometers ) Io has an estimated 400 volcanoes, according to NASA .

The discovery solves a 44-year-old mystery of how Io became so volcanically active.

The Juno spacecraft made two very close flybys of Io in 2023 and 2024 .

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