Nasa’s Juno spacecraft detected a huge lake of fire on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, which at around 100,000 square kilometres is even bigger than the previous record holder, Loki Patera, which is also on the volatile moon.
(Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)] The moon is so active because it orbits close to Jupiter, whose massive gravitational pull sends it this way and that way and mangles any chance of peace.
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Orbiting around our solar system’s biggest planet once every 42.5 hours, it is ‘relentlessly squeezed’ as it gets closer and further away which melts portions of its interior, sending up an ‘endless series of lava plumes and ash venting into its atmosphere from the estimated 400 volcanoes that riddle its surface,’ Nasa said.
Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, Washington, District of Columbia, United States - 28 Nov 2011] It is thought to have the power of ‘well over’ 80 trillion watts.
