May 13, 2011
~ 'Cause it's Only a Pizza Moon ~

By examining data from the Galileo space probe, scientists have a new theory about what drives volcanism on the Jovian moon, Io. Their conclusion: a gigantic, moon-girding sea of lava thirty miles deep under a lower-density crust about the same distance thick. Definitely a garden spot, that.

Posted by scott at May 13, 2011 06:29 AM

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