Friday 6 January 2023 – 1.56pm WIB
Techno live – moon Jupiter the It is the most geologically active object in the solar system. Last year I had a lot of fun volcanic which broke a record according to a scientist.
Physicist Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) has been monitoring volcanic activity on Io every year since 2017. The Jovian moon shows some sort of outburst every year, but the largest was recorded in the fall of 2022.
Io is Jupiter’s innermost natural satellite and the third largest of Jupiter’s other four major moons and is slightly larger than Earth’s Moon.
Like the other Galilean moons, it was discovered by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610 and named after Io, a priestess of Hera and one of Zeus’ mistresses in ancient Greek mythology.
Io has more than 400 active volcanoes, many of which spew plumes of sulfur and sulfur dioxide that can rise up to 300 miles above the lunar surface.
The volcanism is the result of the intense tides that Io feels, both from its parent planet and from its other two Galilean moons, Europa and Ganymede.
In his study, Morgenthaler used data from PSI’s Input/Output (IoIO) Observatory, located near Benson, Arizona, launched by the Express website on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
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The observatory uses the technique of coronagraphy, in which Jupiter’s bright light is dimmed so that the faintest gas near the gas giant can be imaged.
