Io Is a Volcanic Hellscape of Fire and Ice: let’s go explore it. (Sept. 27th 2023)

The "Prometheus" spatial mission aim to go into orbit around Jupiter and fly by its moon Io to target a volcanic plume (Prometheus) and fly through it (several miles above Io’s surface) to trap dust and gas from the plume in a pizza-sized collector. (ⒸNASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift/CC BY)

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