Jupiter’s Explosive Moon — Io
<p>We’re going back to Jupiter! JUICE, or the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, has launched this Friday and is now headed towards Jupiter. There, it’ll collect and survey the three icy and large moons for show — Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, each with its own subsurface ocean to explore. This’ll probably be done through scanning the surfaces for the building blocks of life, and while we won’t be able to directly map signatures of life, it’ll hopefully provide us a precedent to launch future missions to these icy worlds.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like JUICE is going to check out Io, the first in my bucket list for our Solar System’s top three moons to visit. To me, Io’s an incredibly intriguing world — despite its distance from the sun, it’s a volcano-puckered wasteland, a caustic-green hue covering its’ crust, red and yellow highlights haphazardly put together like an amateur using hair dye. It’s even the most volcanically-active body in the solar system, triumphing the likes of Venus! Even then, it only has a really, </p>
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