The news that Jupiter’s fiery moon Io has another volcano might not rock everybody’s socks off, since we already know that Io is hellish.
But it means a lot to volcanologists, and especially, to experts who study what the BBC Earth Sciences people called (with some understandable hyperbole) “Our Universe’s Most Volatile Volcanoes” in this 2023 documentary:
A reminder: You can virtually climb Mount Olympus!
In further news this year, it’s possible that both our Moon and the planet Venus might still be volcanically active!
A little lagniappe — from space:
Featured image: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Europlanet via Sky and Telescope.
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