Are There Volcanoes in Our Solar System?

Are there Space Volcanoes? Have you heard of Space Volcanoes? What planet are they on? Are Space Volcanoes beyond our Solar System?

Well, Earth wasn't the only planet in the Solar System with volcanoes. There are also Space Volcanoes which are on other planets and moons.

Io - Jupiter's Moon
Credit: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/

Now, when it comes to Volcanoes in our Solar System then people think of Io. Io is a moon of Jupiter. Io is the innermost moon of the Galilean Moons. Galilean Moons are moons discovered by Galileo Galilei. So back to Io, it is the fourth largest moon of Jupiter. Io was discovered on 8 January 1610 by Galileo Galilei. The moon has the most density of all of the moons. Io has the least amount of water of any astronomical object in the Solar System. Io is the first moon after discovering Earth's Moon. The moon's orbital period is 42 hours. This means that it takes 42 hours to complete one orbit around Jupiter. Io is the most volcanically active spot in the Solar System. Io is slightly smaller than our Moon. Voyager and Cassini have flybys of Io and studied more about their volcanoes. Galileo (spacecraft) has orbited Jupiter. The recent flyby was New Horizons which was on the way to Pluto.

So, here is a list of volcanoes around the Solar System. The explanation mark shows volcanoes on these planets in our Solar System.

• Venus
• Like Io, Venus is covered with volcanoes. Venus has around 1,000 volcanoes.
• Earth
• Earth's Volcanoes
• Earth's Moon
• Lunar Dome
• Mons Rümker
• Mons Hansteen
• Mars
• Olympus Mons, which is the tallest mountain in our Solar System is also a volcano. The mountain is three times larger than Mount Everest. 
• Jupiter
• Ganymede
• Io
• Europa
• Callisto
• Saturn
• Enceladus 
• Titan
• Neptune
• Triton

What I've Learnt

• Io was discovered on 8 January 1610.
• Io has the most density than the other moons of Jupiter. 
• Io has the least amount of water than any other astronomical object in the Solar System.
• Io is the first moon after discovering Earth's Moon. 
• Io's orbital period is 42 hours.
• Io is the most volcanically active spot in the Solar System.
• Io is slightly smaller than our Moon. 
• Voyager and Cassini have flybys of Io and studied more about their volcanoes. Galileo (spacecraft) has orbited Jupiter. The recent flyby was New Horizons which was on the way to Pluto. 
• Venus is covered with volcanoes.
• Venus has around 1,000 volcanoes.
• Earth's moon has three volcanoes, Lunar Dome, Mons Rümker, Mons Hansteen.
• Olympus Mons is a volcano. 
• Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton is a volcano.

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