Io is the solar system’s most volcanically active world.

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Io is the solar system’s most volcanically active world.

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Hundreds of volcanoes reshape its colorful surface. The main energy source is not unusual closeness to the Sun, but repeated gravitational flexing as Io moves through Jupiter’s powerful tidal field.

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