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New Images of Jupiter’s Most Volcanic Moon Show Some Wild Changes On Its Surface
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6/6/2024
Io’s surface is a wild hellscape, as it is the most volcanically active place in our entire Solar System. Recently the University of Arizona’s Large Binocular Telescope aimed in its direction, revealing some incredible new views of this Jovian moon.
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This is Jupiter's moon Io.
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Its surface is a wild hellscape as it's the most volcanically active place in our entire
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solar system and recently the University of Arizona's Large Binocular Telescope aimed
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in its direction, revealing some incredible new views of this Jovian moon.
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This is the highest resolution photo of Io ever captured by an Earth-based telescope,
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showing areas in 50-mile resolution, and the images are so detailed, it has actually allowed
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astronomers to see changes in the region surrounding the Pele volcano, one of Io's biggest.
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They say they have identified a deposit of material left behind by a volcanic plume,
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but the deposits aren't even from Pele.
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The researchers say they were left behind by another volcano.
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Pilon Patera, Ashley Davies, lead researcher with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said
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about the findings, "We interpret the changes as dark lava deposits and white sulfur dioxide
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deposits originating from an eruption at Pilon Patera, which partially covered Pele's red
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sulfur-rich plume deposit."
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Io's insane volcanism is caused by its gravitational interaction between Jupiter and its other
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moons, a constant tug-of-war match, causing Io to flex and deform, producing extreme amounts
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of lava.
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