Jupiter's Peculiar Moon

Jupiter's moon Io is one of the strangest places in our solar system, with extremely tall mountains, foul-smelling gases in its tenuous atmosphere and incredible levels of volcanic activity beneath its surface.

A new study of some of the chemical compounds present on the Jovian moon Io has revealed fascinating new details about this peculiar world, researchers said.

"It's an exciting place," said researcher Arielle Moullet of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "It's the most volcanic place in the solar system and as far as we know in the universe. It is unique."…

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