Using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it flew past Jupiter's highly volcanic moon Io in late 2023 and again in early 2024, a Southwest Research Institute-led team identified electrons with ...

The surface of Io, one of Jupiter's many moons, is an especially hostile environment – even for space. Scientists recently observed its atmosphere completely collapse for the very first time.

NASA's Juno spacecraft found Io’s surface is as smooth as glass, just like volcanically created obsidian glass ...