00:00this is the most volcanic place in our entire solar system jupiter's moon io over the last few
00:10years nasa's juno spacecraft has been making closer and closer passes of the fiery hotspot
00:15and now it has made another new discovery juno has imaged what experts say is a massive new
00:20volcano just south of the moon's equator these are two photos of the area where the volcano has
00:24emerged one taken in 1997 by the galileo spacecraft and the other by juno recently where there was
00:30once a featureless desert now can be seen a massive area of cooled and hardened lava the volcano has a
00:36gargantuan lava flow region with the remnants from previous eruptions covering an area some 111 by 111
00:44miles io is so volcanic because it's caught in a gravitational tug-of-war match between the largest
00:49planet in our solar system and jupiter's other jovian moons this has led to io's surface being
00:54deformed and pulled causing immense amounts of friction inside the volcanic hot spot in fact
01:00researchers estimate that around three percent of io's entire surface is covered in lakes of lava
01:05with the planetary satellite often having as many as 150 active eruptions occurring at any given time
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