Pull-apart Mountain on Io (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Pull-apart Mountain on Io

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This is Hi'iaka Montes. The dark area at center of this 'pull apart' mountain is a wide volcanic crater called a patera.

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NASA/JPL

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