00:00There are places in the solar system that seem dead at first glance. Icy worlds, craters, standstill.
00:08And then there's Io, a moon that orbits closer to Jupiter than our moon does to earth. About
00:15350 000 kilometers above the clouds of this gas giant. And this moon is anything but dead. Io
00:24is the most violent place in the entire solar system. Besides the sun of course. Not mars,
00:30not venus and not some exotic exoplanet either. A moon. Of all things, a moon. When you see pictures
00:38of Io, your first thought is photoshop. Yellow, green, red, black. A surface that looks like a
00:47chemistry lab that exploded. And the fascinating thing is, these colors aren't a trick. That's
00:54geology. Or i-ology. But not geology as we know it.
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