Is Jupiter's Moon Io Poised to Top Its Titanic Surt Volcano Eruption? --"The Most Powerful Ever Observed in Our Solar System"

In February 2001 an eruption from the Surt volcano on the Jupiter-facing hemisphere of Io, the volcanic epi-center of our solar system, occurred with an estimated output of 78,000 Gigawatts. By comparison, the 1992 eruption of Mt Etna, Sicily, was...