The cryovolcanoes of Io

There’s something magical about witnessing geological processes we know here on Earth on a moon hundreds of millions of miles beyond our own Moon. In 2007, NASA’s New Horizons space probe (on its way to Pluto) captured a sequence of images of the “cryovolcano” Tvashtar Paterae erupting into space on Jupiter’s moon Io.

I find this animated GIF of the photos mesmerizing…

Animated GIF of Tvashtar Paterae cryovolcano on Io

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