The extreme climates of Jupiter Io’s moon can freeze people to death by volcanoes.
Jupiter’s moon Io is where volcanic activity is most intense, scientists say, but the celestial surface is so cold it can kill all life, Forbes said on July 30.
Io is the smallest of Jupiter’s four moons. The heat of Io does not come from the formation of this satellite or the decay of radioactive elements such as those in celestial bodies that have had or have had volcanic activity.
The gravity of Jupiter and the other moons produces waves in Io. This wave tore and heated the hard rock into molten magma, causing intense volcanic activity on the surface of Io. According to satellite measurements, lava flows on the surface at an average of 1,300 degrees Celsius, emerging from cracks, craters or craters.
Lava can spray hundreds of times the height of Mount Everest due to volcanic intensity, an extremely thin atmosphere, and weak magnetic fields on Io. Lava can therefore pass through the atmosphere to enter space and freeze into a bundle of blue gas containing a lot of sulfur.
Due to volcanic activity, the surface of Io in the area around the equator is very hot, constantly agitated by lava. But much of Io’s remaining surface is extremely cold. When Jupiter shaded Io, this lunar surface was -168 degrees Celsius. In the sun, the surface temperature was -148 degrees Celsius.
On the one hand, Io’s very thin atmosphere makes this satellite a warming greenhouse effect. On the other hand, the existence of this atmosphere is only temporal.
In the dark, the atmosphere containing most of the volcanic SO2 is broken down by frozen gas molecules that fall to the surface as acid snow. In the presence of sun, the sublimation of sulfur helps restore the atmosphere.
