IVO: Io Volcano Observer
6 August 2020
An image of Io, moon of Jupiter
FOLLOW THE HEAT

IVO will be the first mission dedicated to Io, the most volcanically active world in the solar system.

The IVO mission design and payload will transform our understanding of this unique world and how tidal heating shapes planetary worlds across the cosmos.

Fact sheet  •   Poster



IO IS SPECIAL
HOW PLANETS LOSE HEAT
DOES IO HAVE A MAGMA OCEAN?
SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS



MAJOR PARTNERS

The University of Arizona

Principal Investigator
Regents’ Professor Alfred McEwen
Science operations
potential student collaboration camera 		United States Geological Survey

Deputy Principal Investigator
Dr. Laszlo Kestay
data processing
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Mission and spacecraft design, build
and management; cameras;
Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS) 		University of California


Dual fluxgate magnetometers
German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Thermal Mapper 		University of Bern

Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Radio science, navigation