Astronomy Picture of Day: Io under construction# Astronomy - 天文
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Io's Surface: Under Construction
Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA
Explanation: Like the downtown area of your favorite city, the roads you drive to work on, and
any self-respecting web site ... Io's surface is constantly under construction. This moon of
Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System's most volcanically active body -- its
bizarre looking surface continuously formed and reformed by lava flows. Generated using 1996
data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft,
Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA
Explanation: Like the downtown area of your favorite city, the roads you drive to work on, and
any self-respecting web site ... Io's surface is constantly under construction. This moon of
Jupiter holds the distinction of being the Solar System's most volcanically active body -- its
bizarre looking surface continuously formed and reformed by lava flows. Generated using 1996
data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft,