Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
A Continuous Eruption on Jupiter's Moon Io
Explanation:
A volcano on Jupiter's moon Io [ http://www.seds.org…] has been photographed recently during an ongoing eruption. Hot glowing lava is visible on the left on this representative-color image [ http://photojournal…]. A glowing landscape of plateaus and valleys covered in sulfur [ http://pearl1.lanl.…] and silicate rock [ http://windows.ivv.…] surrounds the active volcano [ http://volcano.und.…]. Many features including several of the dark spots [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] have evolved between February 2000, when the robot spacecraft Galileo [ http://www.jpl.nasa…] currently orbiting Jupiter [ http://www.seds.org…] took this picture, and November 1999. Io [ http://cass.jsc.nas…] is slightly larger than Earth's Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] and is the closest large moon to Jupiter [ http://galileo.jpl.…]. The above image [ http://photojournal…] shows a region about 250 kilometers across. How the internal structure of Io [ http://adsabs.harva…] creates these active volcanoes [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] remains under investigation.
Credit and Copyright:
Galileo Project, JPL [ http://www.jpl.nasa…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
keyword:
Io
keyword:
volcano
keyword:
eruption
facet_when:
February 2000
facet_when:
November 1999
facet_where:
Jupiter
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Galileo
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Jupiter
facet_what:
Io
facet_what:
moon
facet_when_year:
1999
facet_when_year:
2000
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap000606

A Continuous Eruption on Jupiter's Moon Io
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