What she initially thought was a moon turned out to be a plume from an active volcano. Planetary geologists subsequently learned Io’s interior is in turmoil: Jupiter ... Voyager 1 crossed into a ...

The dark heart-shaped feature near the bottom shows fallout deposits from the active plume Pele. (Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS) 1) Volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io ... In 2011, Voyager 1 crossed into a zone ...

The U.S. space agency, NASA, which operates Voyager, has recently published papers saying Voyager 1 is still in a zone influenced ... was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn.

Flybys of Jupiter’s fiery moon Io ... became the first person to identify a volcanic plume as she studied an image of Io ...

Potential questions a sample return mission could address include Io's geologic and isotopic composition, plume ... Voyager 1 when it and its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2, conducted flybys of ...

the Voyager spacecraft beamed startling images back to Earth—of Jupiter and Saturn, then Uranus and Neptune and their moons. Voyager 1’s most famous shot may be what famed astronomer Carl Sagan called ...