Article 6M6AA Yeah, That's a Freakin' Lava Lake on a Moon

Yeah, That's a Freakin' Lava Lake on a Moon

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Isaac Schultz
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Two recent flybys of Jupiter's moon Io by NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed a couple of stunning surprises: a remarkably steep mountain and islands in the middle of a burbling lava lake. The new findings were announced yesterday by Scott Bolton, the principal investigator of the Juno mission, at the European Geophysical...

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