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Jupiter’s Moon Io Does Not Have Subsurface Magma Ocean, Study Suggests


Volcanic activity on Io -- the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter and the most volcanically active body in the Solar System -- is unlikely to be sourced from a global magma ocean just below the surface.

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