This NASA montage of New Horizons images shows Jupiter and its volcanic moon Io, taken during the spacecraft’s Jupiter flyby in early 2007. The image shows a major eruption in progress on Io’s night side, at the northern volcano Tvashtar. Incandescent lava glows red beneath a volcanic plume, whose uppermost portions are illuminated by sunlight. The plume appears blue due to scattering of light by small particles within it. Picture: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Goddard Space Flight Center/AFP
Major eruption in volcanic Moon Io
By wordlesstech team|2011-11-21T08:45:33+02:00Nov 18, 2011|Categories: Astronomy|Tags: eruption, lava, NASA, Spacecraft|
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