Jupiter's Moon Io Has Volcanoes That Shoot Lava Higher Than The Space Station

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[00:00:00]Jupiter's moon Io has volcanoes so violent they shoot lava 250 miles into space. That is higher than the International Space Station orbits Earth. But the wild part is why. Io is constantly being squeezed like a stress ball by Jupiter's gravity pulling it one way while two other moons tug it another. That friction heats its entire interior into a molten engine.

[00:00:21]Scientists actually use Io to predict how gravity could cook moons around exoplanets we have never even visited yet. One little moon rewrote the search for alien geology.