With all those volcanoes...
And Io's small mass a lot of material is literally ejected back into space.
This adds to the complexity of the goings on around jupiter, including adding to the plasma torus, represented in the image below in red.
Plasma is the fourth phase of matter, solid, liquid, gass and plasma.
By The original uploader was Volcanopele at English Wikipedia.Yned., CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
IOS controls Jupiter's magnetostatic?
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Knowledge is power!
Thanks @gavvet for always posting educational astronomies.
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Plasma, a phase of matter? Is like a liquid gas or a combination of the other three - a reason to dive for more.
Thanks for sharing.