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Data gathered by a NASA spacecraft has revealed a stunning lake of lava on one of one of Jupiter’s moons. Scientists used information transmitted by the Juno probe to create an animation that shows the smooth, glass-like surface of Io’s 127-mile-long lava lake, named Loki Patera, according to the space agency. In addition to being the third-largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system, according to NASA. “Io is simply littered with volcanoes, and we caught a few of them in action,” Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton said during a news confer…

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