Tvashtar in motion
Tue May 15, 2007 at 20:04 UTC
Now playing on the New Horizons Web site: A new "movie" of a plume on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io.
This five-frame sequence of images captures the giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano. Snapped by the New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year, the movie clearly shows motion in the cloud of volcanic debris, which extends some 330 kilometers (200 miles) above the moon's surface.
