{"id":201830,"date":"2024-12-18T02:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/jupiters-hellish-moon-isnt-powered-by-a-hidden-ocean-of-magma-study-finds"},"modified":"2024-12-18T02:17:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:17:44","slug":"jupiters-hellish-moon-isnt-powered-by-a-hidden-ocean-of-magma-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/jupiters-hellish-moon-isnt-powered-by-a-hidden-ocean-of-magma-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter\u2019s Hellish Moon Isn\u2019t Powered by a Hidden Ocean of Magma, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zpc_LCQD0hc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-weirdest-facts-about-jupiter\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Jupiter<\/a>\u2019s moon <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Io_(moon)\">Io<\/a> is the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/massive-new-volcano-discovered-erupting-on-jupiters-moon-io\">volcanically active<\/a> body in our Solar System, with around 400 volcanoes and extensive lava flows spread across its surface \u2013 but contrary to what scientists thought, a new study suggests this geological chaos is not powered by a global, moonwide ocean of magma below the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Using images snapped by NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasas-juno-flyby-reveals-jupiters-volcanic-moon-in-mind-blowing-detail\">Juno<\/a> spacecraft, gravitational measurements, and historical data about Io\u2019s tidal deformations, an international team of researchers has determined that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/moon\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">the moon<\/a>\u2019s volcanoes are powered by a scattering of magma chambers in an otherwise solid mantle.<\/p>\n<p>The findings counter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-023-02123-5\">previous theories<\/a> about how Io\u2019s volcanoes are powered, and point to a mostly solid mantle for the moon. With magma oceans believed to be present on many worlds, especially early in their formation \u2013 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aba8949\">our own Moon<\/a> \u2013 we may need to rethink how planets form and evolve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter\u2019s moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our Solar System, with around 400 volcanoes and extensive lava flows spread across its surface \u2013 but contrary to what scientists thought, a new study suggests this geological chaos is not powered by a global, moonwide ocean of magma below the surface. Using images snapped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}