Enormous new volcano has burst by means of the floor of Jupiter’s moon Io

A contemporary volcano with lava flows spanning tons of of kilometres has appeared on Jupiter’s moon Io. It has fashioned within the 27 years between flybys of two spacecraft.

Astronomers first took detailed photographs of Io, probably the most volcanically lively physique within the photo voltaic system, with NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which was finding out Jupiter and its moons between 1995 and 2003.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting…