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Erupting into Space

Erupting into Space

 

Erupting into Space is on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's exhibition, Beyond: Visions of Planetary Landscapes, from May 26, 2010 - May 2, 2011. 

An 86-mile-high volcanic plume explodes above the horizon of Jupiter’s moon Io. The plume is erupting over a caldera (volcanic depression), named Pillan Patera, after a South American god of thunder, fire, and volcanoes.

Galileo, June 28, 1997

Image Number: WEB11411-2010
Credit: NASA; JPL; PIRL; University of Arizona; Kinetikon Pictures
For print or commercial use, please contact: Michael Benson


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