The energy to melt the rock in Io's mantle would come from tidal heating in the grip of Jupiter's gravitational field — Io moves around Jupiter on an eccentric orbit, and its distance from the ...

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

Jupiter now appears 11-percent larger and more than one and a half times brighter than it did back in April 2017, when it at its farthest point from the sun. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Jupiter sets record after 12 new moons discovered 00:14. Europa, ... Europa is believed to have a rocky mantle and an iron core. The findings, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, ...

S cott Bolton’s first encounter with Io took place in the summer of 1980, right after he graduated from college and started a job at NASA. The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, ...

Not only is it Jupiter’s most massive satellite, it’s the biggest moon in the whole solar system. ... acquire their salt from chemical interactions where liquid water touches a rocky mantle.

The energy to melt the rock in Io's mantle would come from tidal heating in the grip of Jupiter's gravitational field — Io moves around Jupiter on an eccentric orbit, and its distance from the ...