Io video (VIDEO)

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Caption

This video shows images of Jupiter's moon Io in radio (made with ALMA), and optical light (made with Voyager 1 and Galileo missions). The ALMA images were taken when Io passed into Jupiter's shadow in March 2018 (eclipse), and from Jupiter's shadow into sunlight in September 2018. These radio images for the first time show plumes of sulfur dioxide (in yellow) rise up from the volcanoes on Io.

Credit

ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), I. de Pater et al.; NRAO/AUI NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA

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