Astronomy Picture of Day: Io Volcano# Astronomy - 天文
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Io Volcano Culann Patera
Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA
Explanation: What causes the unusual colors surrounding Io's volcanoes? Io, the innermost
large moon of Jupiter, is known to be the most tumultuous body in the Solar System.
Approximately the size of Earth's Moon, Io undergoes nearly continuous volcanic eruptions
from an interior heated by gravitational tides from Jupiter and Jupiter's other large moons.
The robot spacecraft Galileo currently orbiting Jupiter has been
Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA
Explanation: What causes the unusual colors surrounding Io's volcanoes? Io, the innermost
large moon of Jupiter, is known to be the most tumultuous body in the Solar System.
Approximately the size of Earth's Moon, Io undergoes nearly continuous volcanic eruptions
from an interior heated by gravitational tides from Jupiter and Jupiter's other large moons.
The robot spacecraft Galileo currently orbiting Jupiter has been