This is John Bachelor, a conversation with my good friend Bob Zimmerman about the Moon, Planet

IO of Jupiter's system.

Juno, the probe has taken many photographs now and infrared readings of the surface of

IO. It is a volcanic planet. What is cool about it is that it's got lakes of

magma, lakes of lava spinning around. Bob explains.

I remember Bob's rule about the solar system and the planets and moons. Nothing's like anything else. Everything's

unique. We have one of everything in our system. We're lucky, lucky solar

system. We're looking for others like us. There are lots out there of possibilities, but right now

I. O. is the volcanic planet, not unlike Jupiter, not unlike Venus, but then again, Bob Zimmerman on I.

Thanks to the NASA JPL probe, Juno.

More of this tonight.

This is using data from the various flybys, most specifically a flyby of the moon

I.

In May of 23, I always want with all the volcanoes.

Scientists have said that the infrared data located at least 11 active

lava lakes on I. Oh these actual lakes of lava and what's interesting about the lakes is that they don't

overflow the rims at all. It appears that they're very stable, which means the magna comes up from

below and then descends down below again.

It never rises up above the rims to overflow like you would expect at a volcano.

And that just indicates once again that there's a lot of magma on I.O. and it's very stable.

And this is a volcano planet that's going to keep bursting over and over and over again because of the tidal forces of Jupiter.