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Imagine living on a moon where volcanoes constantly reshape the surface! 🌋 Meet Io, Jupiter’s incredible moon and the most volcanically active world known in our Solar System. Jupiter’s powerful gravity squeezes Io, generating intense internal heat that melts rock and fuels spectacular eruptions. Its surface is continually transformed by lava and sulfur.

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00:00This tiny moon has hundreds of volcanoes.
00:03Meet Io, a world where eruptions constantly reshape the surface.
00:08Jupiter's gravity squeezes Io, heating its interior until rock melts into magma.
00:13That energy fuels spectacular volcanic eruptions.
00:17Io is the most volcanically active world we know.
00:21Its surface is constantly repainted by lava and sulfur.
00:25Imagine living on a world like this.

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