Jupiter's moon Io [EYE-oh or EE-oh] is one of the most exotic places in the solar system. It is the most volcanic body known, with lava flows, lava lakes, and giant calderas covering its sulfurous landscape. It has fowling with volcanic geysers, spewing flaming hot plumes to over 500 kilometers high. Its mountains are much taller than those on Earth. Heights of 16 kilometers (52,000 feet). Orbits closer to Jupiter's cloud tops than the moon does to Earth. Shoots about 1,000 kilograms (1 ton) per second of volcanic gases and other materials. Io acts as an electrical generator as it moves through Jupiter's magnetic field, developing 400,000 volts across its diameter and generating an electric current of 3 million amperes that flows along the magnetic field to the planet's ionosphere. 3636 kilometer in diameter. Very close to the moon.
1.3 million times 48 is 62.4 moons
48 moons can fit in Earth
1.3 millions Earths fit into sun
62.4 million moons can fit into sun. So you can fit about 62.5million Ios' in the sun.
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i liked how you realy explained about io. you gave lots of facts, as well as the diamiter and compairing it to the sun.
ReplyDeleteI would have also added how many times io would go into the earth, thats about it.
I still want to know who discovered the moon, how and why?
Gallieo Discovered io along with Europa, also known as Rosemary's moon. About only 3 io can fit earth since 1/3 of the io is the moon.
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