What is io?

is the moon of Jupiter. Together with Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, the Io Galilean month, discovered by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei using one of the first telescopes. It is the innermost Galilean months and narrowly exposes them to a strong magnetosphere and the ambient radiation of Jupiter. Due to the tidal heating from its orbit around Jupiter, Io is one of the most geologically active bodies in the solar system with more than 400 volcanoes.

When the spacecraft Voyager first recorded evidence of volcanism on IO, it was the first discovery of volcanism on the extraterrestrial world and caused great excitement in the scientific community. The unusual surface without the IO crater has caused the most fascinating of the Jovian months of planetary scientists. IO, covered in the volcanic surface of IO, is covered by the frosts of sulfur and sulfur, but with a thin silicate core causes to resemble a yellow pizza. On IO in the end hemisphere, huge volcano, pele, eruption of Constanceantly, surrounded by gigantic ča red -ring of volcanic fallen. It was an eruption of pele, which first pointed out scientists that Io was volcanically active.

Intensive geological activity Io gave him mountain mountains than Mt. Everest. Boösule Montes has peaks over 10 miles of high. A total of IO has about 150 mountains.

Although it lacks real craters, IO is covered with small volcanic depression called Paterae, after the type of shallow Roman bowl. These depression are usually bounded by steep cliffs and look similar to earthly calders, although the formation mechanism seems to be different and still elusive. The largest Paterae has an average of 125 million. In 1999 and 2000, the spacecraft watched the active lava flows near Paterae.

When the New Horizons probe passed Io 1.Asti. If I had a lot of atmosphere, he would feel terrible. Constant sulfur eruptions mean that IO will be quite a challenge for human colonists. In order to be habitable, it would probably have to have its orbit adjusted to move it away from Jupiter and calm its Hadean geology.