Comments on: Animation of Tvashtar Volcano Erupting on Io

Animation of Tvashtar Volcano Erupting on Io

brownpau — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:12:13 -0800

Tvashtar in Motion. Awesome five-frame GIF of fountaining sulfuric lava on Io courtesy New Horizons as it swung by Jupiter earlier this year. Found via Planetary Society Blog (Thank you, Emily). More on Tvashtar.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:31:06 -0800

Whoa!

By: rtha

rtha — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:33:20 -0800

"Only the upper part of the plume is visible from this vantage point – the plume's source is 130 kilometers (80 miles) below the edge of Io's disk, on the far side of the moon." Super-extra-double whoa! Stunning.

By: Vamier

Vamier — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:43:23 -0800

I like the fact that you can see how fast Io's rotation is! In the eight minutes it took to get this sequence, it moves pretty dramatically.

By: furtive

furtive — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:55:36 -0800

I forgot about this artificial satellite, awesome!

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:55:42 -0800

The astronomy links in the last few months have been simply amazing. Where are y'all finding this stuff?

By: phaedon

phaedon — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:57:05 -0800

Is that john sweeney yelling at scientologists on the other side of that moon?

By: phrontist

phrontist — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:57:42 -0800

Even now, when NASA doesn't get a lot of public glory, the work they do is still as interesting as ever. Great post... I'm going to look into an internship now.

By: Flashman

Flashman — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:04:39 -0800

Spiders from Mars!

By: honeydew

honeydew — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:11:11 -0800

That's pretty freaking neat.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:25:27 -0800

Good find, brown-p!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:28:00 -0800

that is one big damn volcano!

By: straight

straight — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:37:21 -0800

OMG, that thing is huge. Amazing. It's like something out of a freakin' comic book. If Io were the size of the Earth (it's actually about the same size as Earth's moon), it looks like that volcano would be covering most of North America.

By: Joeforking

Joeforking — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:12:24 -0800

On Earth the volcano would be this big.

By: SassHat

SassHat — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:29:41 -0800

Yay Science!

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:31:27 -0800

Jerry Falwell is alive and well on Io?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:37:22 -0800

It's a giant lawn sprinkler.

By: pax digita

pax digita — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:44:30 -0800

If Io were the size of the Earth ... that volcano would be covering most of North America. Gee, that sounds sort of familiar....

By: garethspor

garethspor — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:48:47 -0800

dude!

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 16 May 2007 09:16:00 -0800

I was thinking the same thing, pax digita.