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    An active volcanic eruption on Jupiter’s moon 'Io' was captured in this false color image taken on Feb. 22, 2000, by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.
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    An active volcanic eruption on Jupiter’s moon ‘Io’ was captured in this false color image taken on Feb. 22, 2000, by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.

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    1. Suspicious-Slip248 on

      White and orange areas on the left side of the picture show newly erupted hot lava. The two small bright spots are sites where molten rock is exposed to the surface at the toes of lava flows. The larger orange and yellow ribbon is a cooling lava flow that is more than more than 60 km (37 miles) long.

    3. Einachiel on

      Question: how would lava behave in a -130C and 0.183g? Would it almost instantly cool down and/or float away due to the internal pressure of Io?

    4. In-All-Unseriousness on

      A whole solar system worth of objects to explore and we’ve barely scratched the surface. How could anyone look at this picture and not want to invest in dozen of probes that would orbit and survey Io and many other moons.