“Loki is the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, so bright in the infrared that we can detect it using telescopes on the Earth,” Julie Rathbun of the Planetary Science Institute said in a ...

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Jupiter's moon Io is home to the most active volcano in the solar system, Loki Patera, a 125-mile-wide lava lake. Now, a new study suggests that Loki Patera is getting ready to erupt again.

As Io’s largest volcano, Loki’s eruptions show up ten to a hundred times brighter than other volcanic activity on the moon. Loki is just one of over 400 volcanoes on Io, ...

While volcanic eruptions are usually quite tough to predict, our observations of Io and Loki over the last two decades show relatively consistent timings for its eruptions.

“Loki is the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, so bright in the infrared that we can detect it using telescopes on the Earth,” Dr Rathbun said in a statement.

Such is not the case for Loki, however, the largest volcano on Io. When this thing blows, which it tends to do on the regular, it accounts for 15 percent of the moon’s total heat expenditure.

Jupiter’s third-largest moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. New radio images by the ALMA telescope array show the direct effect of this volcanic activity on the ...

Loki, named for the Norse god of mischief, is about to unleash an eruption on Jupiter's moon Io, according to astronomers. ... Loki, a volcano on one of Jupiter's moons, could erupt this month.

Observations of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io show waves of lava in the massive molten lake called Loki Patera.. lo is the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Infrared images from the ...

Loki, only 200km in diameter and at least 600 million km from Earth, was, up to recently, too small to be looked at in details from any ground based optical/infrared telescope.