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Io has 266 Active Volcanic Hotspots Linked by a Global Magma Ocean


Jupiter's Io stands apart from the Solar System's other moons, with its numerous volcanoes and its surface dominated by lava flows. Io's surface volcanism was confirmed in 1979 when the Voyager spacecraft imaged it, but its volcanic nature isn't duplicated anywhere else in our system.

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Io has 266 Active Volcanic Hotspots Linked by a Global Magma Ocean