From the Vault: The Burning Mountains of Io, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe return once more to the Jovian moon of Io, to discuss more recent findings about its volcanism and geology, as well as a look at the mythology behind its name. (part 1 of 3) (originally published 2/6/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.3 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:12.7 | My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:14.1 | Today is Saturday, so we have a rerun for you. |
| 0:16.3 | This is going to be the Burning Mountains of Io Part 1. |
| 0:20.7 | This was a three-part series that we did, |
| 0:24.0 | getting into another one of the fabulous Jovian moons. This originally published 26, 2025. Let's |
| 0:31.9 | jump right in. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:46.3 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Land. |
| 0:49.8 | And I am Joe McCormick. And today on Stuff to Blow Your Mind, we're going to begin a series on Jupiter's Moon I.O. |
| 0:58.3 | Now, years ago, we did a whole series of episodes on the moons of Jupiter as a whole, focusing mainly on the four Galilean moons. |
| 1:06.6 | We'll talk more about that in a bit. |
| 1:08.7 | But recently, I decided I wanted to come back and do a deeper revisit on I.O. in particular, Iyo being Jupiter's innermost moon. |
| 1:18.2 | And this was in part because I learned some new interesting things about it. |
| 1:23.3 | But what really triggered this new rabbit trail of research was that one night, I don't know, sometime in the past week, I got obsessed with new imagery generated by the NASA Juno mission in late 2023 and 2024. |
| 1:39.0 | And so, Rob, if it's all right with you, I'd like to start off by, with us looking at one of these images in |
| 1:44.2 | particular, and folks at home, we will describe it for you. |
| 1:47.1 | All right. |
| 1:47.6 | Let's do it. |
| 1:48.3 | So this is a very crisp color image of IOS Northern Polar region, taken by the Juno spacecraft |
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