Joel Kontinen
We can add a new element to the list of features that speak against a multi-billion year old solar system. In addition to comets, Mercury’s magnetic field and the atmosphere of Saturn’s moon Titan, Jupiter’s moon Io also shows signs of youth (in a relative sense).
If Io were really as old as some astronomers assume, it should be a dead moon.
But it isn’t.
Io’s volcanoes are active and surprisingly violent, suggesting that they could not have been spouting lava for millions of years.
Source:
Coppedge, David. 2013. The Violent Volcanoes of Io. Creation
35 (4), 54-55.
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