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  Jupiter's volcanic moon: IoNov 30, 2009 5:12 PM PST | url
 
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I got the Wikipedia-combing bug again over the weekend, and wrote up an article with some spiffy images and details of the most volcanic body in our solar system, Jupiter's moon Io, which, although only a bit bigger than Earth's own moon, has as many as 400 active volcanos scarring its sulphur-strewn surface. Cool beans! The Io article has lots of big colorful pictures of the lively moon, and an animation of the above image, which shows one of those volcanoes shooting a plume of material 300 meters above the surface.
 
 
 
 
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