Underground Magma Ocean Could Explain Io’s ‘Misplaced’ Volcanoes

[Disir]

“This is the first time the amount and distribution of heat produced by fluid tides in a subterranean magma ocean on Io has been studied in detail,” said Robert Tyler of the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “We found that the pattern of tidal heating predicted by our fluid-tide model is able to produce the surface heat patterns that are actually observed on Io.” Tyler is lead author of a paper on this research published June 2015 in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. - See more at: Underground Magma Ocean Could Explain Io's 'Misplaced' Volcanoes - Astrobiology Magazine

This is very cool.

 

[ScienceRocks]

Very cool! Did you know there's 150 volcano's on Io and it is the most active object in our solar system! Also the magma is hotter then it is on earth...This would explain a great deal about why this is occurring all over the spherical moon!

I wish we could send a mission and land people on it.