From the Vault: The Burning Mountains of Io, Part 3
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 50 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 3 of 3) (originally published 2/13/2025)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:10.2 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:13.5 | Today is Saturday, Valentine's Day, apparently. |
| 0:16.8 | And we have a vault episode for you. |
| 0:19.6 | This is going to be the Burning Mountains of Io, part three. |
| 0:22.7 | It originally published 2.13, 2025. |
| 0:25.7 | It is part three of three. |
| 0:28.5 | Let's jump right in. |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:42.4 | Okay. to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb. |
| 0:46.2 | And I am Joe McCormick, and we're back with the third and final part in our series on Jupiter's Moon, I.O. |
| 0:53.3 | The innermost and third largest of Jupiter's four |
| 0:56.8 | Galilean moons and the most volcanic body in our solar system. Years ago, we did a multi-part |
| 1:04.1 | series on the moons of Jupiter at large, but this time we wanted to come back and do a deeper |
| 1:09.1 | focus on Io in particular to explore its own |
| 1:12.5 | peculiar Hadean prodigies, because it really is, as I've said in the previous two parts, |
| 1:19.3 | I think probably one of the most dramatic places in our solar system, certainly beyond Earth. |
| 1:25.1 | Now, if you haven't heard the previous two parts yet, I would recommend you go back and listen to those in order. But to briefly recap, we started off by talking in detail about some really eerie and thrilling images of the surface of I.O. |
| 1:39.2 | Mostly based on data collected in 2023 and 2024 by NASA's Juno mission. |
| 1:45.7 | These images highlighted a lot of the really enigmatic features of the moon's topography, |
| 1:51.3 | including these gargantuan, thorn-like mountains and volcanic highlands, |
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