Jupiter’s moon Io, photographed by Voyager 2, 10 July 1979.
The end of this blog’s Io-thon follows on from yesterday’s post. The photos used in this gif were taken with longer exposures than yesterday’s, so there is a better contrast between Io and the background. Two volcanic eruptions are clearly visible in the top-left: I think that they are from Amirani and Maui. There’s also an eruption on the right-hand side, but as its only lit by reflected light from Jupiter, it requires a lot of brightening to see (NASA’s photojournal shows it here).
You can also see a volcano in the south, tall enough to stay in sunlight even as the surrounding areas fall into darkness.
Yesterday I mentioned the bright spot glinting near the equator. I asked Jason Perry (who used to write an Io blog) about it on Twitter and he said that it “looks like specular reflection off of glassy, cooled lava near Hi’iaka Patera.” So there you go.
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if the animes can wear the same clothes for 43 episodes in a row then why can’t i
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I can proudly say that I’ve visited every one of these nations. I most enjoyed Napland.
Game Zone is my own personal Waterloo
i have a nice cottage in surfside
10/10 for “isle get it done”
Best nation in the world.
You forgot to include the “aimlessly wandering about the house” river
What about “two hour shower” shoals.
isn’t it somewhere in the Unfinished Work Ocean?
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