Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Eruption on Io
Explanation:
There it goes again. Gas and rock were catapulted hundreds of kilometers into space as Jupiter [ http://www.seds.org…]'s most volatile moon, Io [ http://www.seds.org…], showed yet another impressive volcanic display [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in this just-released photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. This time the culprit was Pele [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…], a volcano thought previously inactive since photographed by the passing Voyager [ http://www.jpl.nasa…] 1 spacecraft in 1979. The explosion is visible on Io [ http://galileo.ivv.…]'s lower left in this false-color photograph [ http://oposite.stsc…], taken in July 1996. Io's thin atmosphere and low gravity allow volcanic plumes [ http://vulcan.wr.us…] to rise higher than they would on Earth.
Credit and Copyright:
J. Spencer (Lowell Obs. [ http://www.lowell.e…]), WFPC2 [ http://www.stsci.ed…], HST [ http://www.stsci.ed…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/]
facet_when:
1979
facet_when:
July 1996
facet_where:
Ganymede
facet_where:
Jupiter
facet_where:
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_what:
Earth
facet_what:
Galileo
facet_what:
Voyager
facet_what:
Ganymede
facet_what:
Moon
facet_what:
Jupiter
facet_what:
Io
facet_what:
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
facet_when_year:
1996
facet_when_year:
1979
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap970623

Eruption on Io
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