Massive volcanic eruption discovered on Jupiter’s “hellish” moon

You may not have thought about it, but other planets and moons of the solar system also experience volcanic eruptions and recently Massive volcanic eruption discovered on one of Jupiter’s moons.

researchers Institute of Planetology (PSI) The US observed a recent io lunar flare Jupiter using the Io Input/Output (IoIO) PSI observatory.

Jeff Morgenthaler, Chief Scientist at PSI, was the one who discovered massive volcanic eruption on the moon Iowhich is considered a hellish place due to the number of volcanic eruptions it registers each year.

According to PSI, Morgenthaler, uses IoIO to monitor volcanic activity on Io, since 2017, when he observed observations showing some kind of outbreak almost every year, but the largest one so far was observed in the fall of 2022.

IoIO observatory, adds PSI, uses coronographic method, dimming the light coming from Jupiter to image faint gases near a bright planet. The glow of two of these gases, sodium and ionized sulfur, began between July and September 2022 and continued until December 2022.

Interestingly, ionized sulfur forms a donut-like structure around Jupiter and is called Io’s plasma torus. I wasn’t that bright in that explosion as seen earlier.

“This may tell us something about composition of volcanic activity what caused the flash, or it could tell us that the torus is more efficient at getting rid of material when more material is dumped into it,” Morgenthaler said.

Future approach to Io

PSI believes that these observations profound implications for the Juno mission NASA, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 because Juno passed Europa during the flare and is gradually approaching Io for a close flyby in December 2023.

A few of Juno tools are sensitive to changes in the plasma environment around Jupiter and Io that can be traced directly to the type of volcanic activity observed by IoIO.

Io is the innermost of Jupiter’s four large moons. and it is the most volcanic body in the solar system due to the tidal loads it experiences from Jupiter and its two other major moons, Europa and Ganymede.

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