NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

On Dec. 27, 2024, NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped by the volcanic world Io. It witnessed a giant eruption.

 "We also got some great close-ups and other data on a 200-kilometer-long lava lake called Loki Patera. There is amazing detail showing these crazy islands embedded in the middle of a potential ...

between the central crust that covers most of the lava lake and the lake's walls. Recycling of melt is implied by the lack of lava flows on and beyond the rim of the lake, indicating that there is ...

The 990m-high strato-volcano's setting makes it extremely difficult to climb. Pictures taken from space are really the only way of looking inside Saunders Island is part of the South Georgia and ...

The Nyiragongo volcano saw its last major eruption in 2002. When it's not erupting, it's home to the world's largest lava lake. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science The Nyiragongo ...

Lava flows from Episode 6, the latest eruptive event of the summit eruption that started at 11:28 p.m. Jan. 24 and ended at ...

The USGS said last week that both Mauna Loa and Kilauea had stopped erupting. Kilauea’s lava lake is stagnant and crusted over. Before this event, Mauna Loa had not erupted since 1984 ...

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. When? This is the question that has brought two of the world's leading volcano scientists to the center of Africa; it's ...

Tephra includes large, dense chunks, light rock debris, and ash. The restless lava lake in Nyiragongo's summit crater regularly causes eruptions of gas and smoke laden with tephra. Lava is the ...