A team of geologists and planetary scientists from the California Institute of Technology, the University of California Santa Cruz, New York University, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reports evidence that Io's volcanic ...
Taking advantage of a rare orbital alignment between two of Jupiter's moons, Io and Europa, researchers have obtained an exceptionally detailed map of the largest lava lake on Io, the most volcanically active body in the ...
Space Exploration
May 10, 2017
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers, including an assistant professor at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering, have identified a weakness believed to exist in Android, Windows and iOS mobile ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 21, 2014
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One of the most promising new kinds of battery to power electric cars is called a lithium-air battery, which could store up to four times as much energy per pound as today's best lithium-ion batteries. But progress has been ...
Nanophysics
May 13, 2013
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New findings from NASA's Juno probe provide a fuller picture of how widespread the lava lakes are on Jupiter's moon Io and include first-time insights into the volcanic processes at work there. These results come courtesy ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 26, 2024
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UC Riverside astrophysicist Stephen Kane had to double-check his calculations. He wasn't sure the planet he was studying could be as extreme as it seemed.
Planetary Sciences
May 9, 2024
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NASA's Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter's moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the surface of the most ...
Astronomy
Dec 29, 2023
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A team of volcanologists and planetary scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, the University of Arizona, and Arizona State University has found via study of a newly created global ...
The spinning, solar-powered spacecraft will take another look of the fiery Jovian moon on July 30.
Space Exploration
Jul 26, 2023
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A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI's Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO).
Planetary Sciences
Jan 3, 2023
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