Gorgeous pic of Volcanic eruption on Jupiter’s moon Io
February 13th, 2007
Gorgeous picture of Jupitor’s moon Io. Two sulfurous eruptions are visible on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io in this color composite image from the robotic Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003.
At the image top, over Io’s limb, a bluish plume rises about 140 kilometers above the surface of a volcanic caldera known as Pillan Patera. In the image middle, near the night/day shadow line, the ring shaped Prometheus plume is seen rising about 75 kilometers above Io while casting a shadow below the volcanic vent.
The plume has been continuously active for at least 18 years. The above image was taken from a distance of about 600,000 kilometers.
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